We are hiring a Tech Lead to join our leadership to work directly with our partners and clients while managing our blockchain engineering team to develop exciting projects.

Our team runs fairly small, flat, and experienced. While hiring is an important tool for this role, Saola's hiring philosophy is to stay as small as possible, for as long as possible, with talent density as high as possible. Impact here is not measured by the size of one's team.

• Lead engineering team to get new projects shipped on time
• Scope, develop, and deploy new dApps / smart contracts
• Research new blockchain technologies and build Proof of Concept for experimenting
• Take ownership of your work and the work of the team
• Help mentor junior engineers to accelerate their growth, productivity, and multiply their impact

• 2+ years of Solidity smart contract development experience
• 5+ years of as full-stack or backend developer (React, NodeJS or Go)
• MUST communicate English well (write, read, speak and listen)
• Experience developing, deploying and running dApps/smart contracts in production on Ethereum mainnet or L2/sidechain
• Knowledge of secure Solidity development patterns for tokens and DeFi protocols
• Ability to design the solution architecture and complete the implementation
• Led teams (>5) technically on architecture and system design
• Experience writing/maintaining clear and detailed runbooks with good documentation practices
• Passionate about blockchain technologies and DeFi protocols

• Experience working with popular blockchain frameworks (Solana, Cosmos, zkEVM/zkSync, etc…)
• Experience with systems programming language Rust
• Significant production software experience with Web3 or FinTech applications
• Experience with SQL databases
• Have open-source contributions or technical writings

• Compensation: up to $2,500 per month
• Hybrid work: 60% team working at our HCMC office + 40% remote
• Occasional lunch & learn, team dinner, company trips, networking events
• Overseas travel opportunities for training and work-related