Job Description

Who is Risk Labs?

Risk Labs is the foundation and core team with the mandate to build and grow the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.

What is UMA?

• UMA’s Optimistic Oracle (OO): Records any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain.
• UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real world data.
• UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.

What is Across?

• Across: A cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO.
• Across’ Purpose: Fulfilling crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible, and more efficient.
• Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in x-chain interoperability and are settled by Across.

The Role

As a DevRel Expert, you’ll bring a passion for engaging with the existing web3 developer community and onboarding the next generation of UMA & Across users and developers across our product suite. You’ll serve as the ear to the ground for developers' needs and pain points, channeling that feedback back to the internal product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Presenting and training developers of all experience levels (in-person or virtually) on deploying or building with Across or UMA products.
• Hosting educational office hours to support builders, deepen understanding of specific use cases, and help answer technical questions.
• Creating technical assets for Across and UMA, including: product documentation and tutorials, recording and editing video tutorials, etc.
• Evangelizing externally both in-person and across industry-standard platforms and communities.
• Mentoring developers and answering technical questions via Discord and Twitter to support building the next generation of decentralized applications.

Requirements

• Proven abilities as a full stack developer, with at least 2 years of experience working with: TypeScript, Solidity, and GCP.
• Previous experience and a passion for building and maintaining a technically-focused developer community.
• A passion for evangelism at relevant conferences, hackathons, and meetups.
• Excellent mentoring, coaching, and interpersonal skills.
• Outstanding technical skills, and a demonstrated ability to take complex technical concepts and deliver them to a variety of audiences.
• Creating and editing technical videos, prototypes, etc. is a bonus.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options ($UMA and $ACX).
• Salaries for this role range from $100k to $180k (USD), with token allocation growth through voting rewards participation.
• Payment in stablecoins or fiat.
• Philosophies for a culture that cares: Take vacation when needed, family care, training, and development.
• 100% remote, encouraging you to create a work environment in which you thrive.
• At least two team-wide offsites a year.

Our Values

• We value each individual’s right to economic freedom.
• We value openness, honesty, and directness.
• We value integrity.
• We value iterative learning.
• We value taking smart risks.
• We value creating an environment where everyone does their best work.

Why do we love working at Risk Labs?

We are a group aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and strive to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll thrive at Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making a difference. We build products we believe in and continuously strive for innovation and growth. We support each other to create a happy, healthy, and motivated team environment that drives us to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in being both family-friendly and nomad-friendly.

Still want to know more?

Our team blends highly sought engineers and a diverse business team to highlight our high-quality tech. Our international, fast-growing team includes world-class talent and a robust network of supportive investors (Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly, to name a few). Teammates take the time they need and support each other to be their best selves. You won’t get bored with Risk Labs—we are constantly developing, experimenting, and evolving. There’s no right answer, and we’re all doing our best!