Job description
We’re hiring a Senior Developer Relations Engineer to educate the Hardhat community about our open-source projects and spread the word across the Ethereum developer community. This includes Hardhat, Hardhat Ignition, Hardhat for VSCode, Slang, and EDR. You’ll be the main driver behind our marketing and community effort. You’ll collaborate closely with our engineering team, and you’ll report to our CEO.
Who we are
The Nomic Foundation is a non-profit advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. We build open-source runtimes, compilers, build systems, and deployment solutions that are used by tens of thousands of developers. We emphasize robust engineering and lean processes, allowing for quick decision-making and distraction-free software development. You have the opportunity to shape the future of the Ethereum ecosystem through deep technical work on critical developer infrastructure, where your specific contributions will have a tangible impact.
About the team
The Hardhat team builds our established and market-leading products. These are user-facing infrastructure that developers use to write, test, compile, and deploy their Solidity contracts for Ethereum. Our users depend on our products for their end-to-end experience of building software. We deliver these features at scale, with users ranging from beginners learning the ropes to teams managing production systems with billions in user on-chain capital at stake. We aim to provide the Ethereum ecosystem with a professional developer tooling that they can rely on to rigorously build, test, and maintain Ethereum software.
This is a fully-remote role, and we’re open to candidates applying within UTC+2 to UTC-4 timezones.
What you’ll do
Grow Hardhat’s community by engaging with developers to help their projects flourish
Deliver talks and workshops in conferences and smaller events across the world
Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation, tutorials, prototypes, and code samples to assist developers in using our products and APIs.
Provide technical guidance and support to developers, helping them overcome challenges and maximize the value of our developer tools.
Engage with developers through various channels, including forums, social media, Discord, messaging apps, conferences, and developer meetups.
Assist Hardhat plugin developers in creating and improving their plugins
Collaborate with builders at hackathons to assist them in creating new projects
Be active and involved in the Ethereum open-source community
Identify community members worth funding with grants for their contributions
Who we’re looking for
You have 5+ years of prior experience in an engineering role
You enjoy helping other developers learn new concepts
You’re a people person
You are an excellent technical writer and highly skilled at explaining complex concepts
You care about developer experience and developer tools, and ideally have prior experience in the tooling domain
Some experience with Ethereum and Hardhat is a plus
Compensation and benefits
Vesting ETH grant as part of total compensation
Unlimited PTO
Budget for IT equipment
Annual Learning & Development Budget
Statutory benefits specific to your location (depending on the employment contract)
Why Join Nomic
Mission-driven value creation
Your contributions will directly impact an ecosystem that is shaping the future of finance, data, and ownership. You won’t be working on optimizing a revenue stream to increase shareholder profits; you’ll create value for the Ethereum community and developer ecosystem.
Lean and robust
We run robust engineering practices and lightweight processes that provide us with structure and fast decision-making. Your time will be spent on technical challenges, coding, and launching features.
We value diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We recognize they are essential to growth and innovation, and sometimes the perfect candidate might not tick every box in the job description. If you’re passionate about what you do and have valuable experience - we want to hear from you. Your unique background and skills could be just what our team needs and we warmly encourage you to apply.
