Full-Stack Engineer

About Kodiak:

Berachain’s Native Liquidity Hub.

Kodiak is a flagship DeFi application built on Berachain and part of the inaugural class of the Build-A-Bera incubator. Our products reimagine how users trade and interact on-chain. When you join Kodiak, you become part of a team that will impact every user within the Berachain ecosystem. Our product suite encompasses the following DeFi layers to facilitate the launch, trading, and liquidity provisioning of any asset on Berachain:

- Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX): this platform provides users with a non-custodial, highly capital-efficient trading and liquidity provision experience powered by both concentrated and full-range AMMs.

- Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands): attracting liquidity deposits through our set-and-forget automated concentrated liquidity strategy vaults.

- Integrated Incentive Layer (Sweetened Islands): tapping into Berachain’s PoL mechanism to sustainably incentivize liquidity for Kodiak Islands.

- No-Code Token Deployer Factory (Panda Factory): facilitating the permissionless deployment of new tokens (e.g., memecoins)

- Kodiak Validator: maintaining and supporting the overall security and value flow of Berachain.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a talented Full-Stack Engineer to join our core team. As an early stage core contributor, you will work with the engineering team to maintain and automate our existing product stack in a production environment, as well as collaborating with the product team to rapidly iterate and drive new product development. This role suits someone with previous experience in DeFi protocols, comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, and ready to collaborate with an experienced engineering team.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain web applications (dapps) for the DEX and related products.

- Ensure the security and reliability of the platform in mainnet production environment.

- Implement and test Solidity smart contracts (writing net new smart contract code preferred, but not required).

- Collaborate with the product team to define and implement new features.

- Optimize code for performance and maintainability.

Requirements:

- 1+ years of engineering experience in DeFi (specifically, Ethereum / EVM).

- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React).

- Strong experience with ethers.js and other related web3 front-end (Wagmi, Viem, Rainbowkit).

- Experience with smart-contract development tools such as Foundry and Hardhat.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Solidity / EVM smart contract development experience.

- Familiarity with back-end tools (subgraph, AWS, etc).

- DeFi power-user / contributor to open-source projects.