Vesta Careers

Vesta the largest native stablecoin protocol on Arbitrum having seen >$1B in total volume. Besides contributing to the stablecoin protocol, our team is looking to expand the Vesta ecosystem with a suite of new products. Our team is based in Vancouver with the option to be partially or fully remote depending on the position.

The role

Vesta is looking for a DeFi financial engineer to join the research team. The candidate should hold a PhD or masters degree in disciplines related to economics and finance. The position is remote-optional, with the recommended option to be in person in our Vancouver office.

Responsibilities

• Research current DeFi primitives including AMMs, lending protocols, NFT marketplaces, among others.
• Work on cutting-edge research projects in market economics, mechanism design, trading systems and risk frameworks.
• Writing research proposals and white papers that cater to experts and non-specialists.
• Build new platforms and product suites under the Vesta brand.
• Develop strong industry and company knowledge.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD preferably in disciplines related to math, economics and finance.
• Interest in research topics in decentralized finance, crypto-economics and blockchain in general.
• Prior experience in crypto and preferably DeFi in designing and prototyping trading systems and risk framework.
• Ability to independently design and execute research plans to answer conceptual questions and quantify solutions.
• Collaborative teamwork skills and ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences verbally and in writing.
• Ability to program in Python and knowledge of advanced machine learning libraries is an advantage.

To Apply

Submit your resume and examples of your work and writing on DeFi topics (ex: Github, Medium)

Benefits

Vesta’ benefits include unlimited and encouraged time off, with annual education stipend, health & fitness stipend and traveling stipend, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, home office setup stipend for remote employees and daily lunches at Vancouver office (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility).

Vesta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability (including gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation (including actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality), veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, reproductive health decision making or any other protected category.

Vesta is building a suite of new products, hoping to combine data analysis, invention, and rigorous inquiry to help bring decentralized finance to the mainstream.

We are seeking a solidity engineer to join our Engineering team.

Engineering at Vesta

When you join Vesta product team, you’ll take on a key role on the development and the improvement of our services. You’ll try to solve unresolved issues that will push forwards Vesta’s products and the ecosystem of the blockchain.

The Team

The Blockchain Developers Group is looking for a passionate Solidity developer to work on maintenance and development of new product. Your primary focus will be to work closely with the product design team on Vesta V2.

Blockchain Developers Group is responsible for developing and maintaining all contracts, security, data analytics and indexing events for the front-end team (e.g: TheGraph).

Your day to day

As a Solidity Engineer you will work on:

• Developing new services and features using Solidity, Foundry for the blockchain and Typescript for deployment scripts & GraphQL
• Collaborating with the team to architect and design robust, resilient, and maintainable solutions in an Agile environment, ensuring the quality of the delivered product
• Deploying, operating and maintaining services in production
• Ensuring scalability and availability of the services
• Collaborating with product owners and front-end developers to deliver features while meeting team deadlines

What we’re looking for

As a Solidity Engineer, you background will look like:

• 2+ Years of back-end engineering experience in the software industry
• 1+ Years of engineering experience in the blockchain industry
• A good understanding of Solidity, Typescript, EVM, OOP and Functional programming
• A good understanding of Foundry
• A good understanding of Google Testing Pyramid
• A good understanding of Proxies
• Experience with debugging tool to debug local code & past TXs
• Experience with a source control tool (Git, Github)
• Experience working in an agile environment with CI/CD processes
• Experience creating UML’s flow and software architecture
• Experience with auditing tools like slither

You will enjoy the following benefits:

• Pay: Competitive salary + token ownership
• Learning: Tuition reimbursement, conference and training sponsorship
• Time Off: Generous vacation and unlimited sick days
• Hybrid Work Policy: Flexible in-office days in Vancouver with budget for home office setup

Vesta is building a suite of new products, hoping to combine data analysis, invention, and rigorous inquiry to help bring decentralized finance to the mainstream.

We are seeking a self-motivated Quantitative Researcher to join our protocol research efforts. This quantitative modeler will work with the rest of the team to generate new ideas and increase capacity, partnering closely with the other domain experts across modelling and trading to drive successful implementation of new strategies.

You will take on the following responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to work with the protocol researchers to devise and translate ideas into algorithms. Ability to gather, maintain and analyze on-chain and centralized exchange data in support of major and minor cryptocurrencies.
• Backtest and simulate the algorithm in historical data and mock data.
• Ability to conduct market structure and market behavior research in on-chain markets.
• Build relationships with the engineering team to implement algorithm. Closely partner with multiple teams across the organization in the execution of joint research work.

You should possess the following qualifications:

• Excellent quantitative skills, as evidenced by formal training in statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, economics, computer science, physics, or related quantitative filed. Extensive experience in utilizing those skills in an applied research environment. A PhD is highly desirable.
• Minimum 1 years of work experience in investment research function of a financial firm.
• Strong understanding of the use of computer technology in financial and economic research, with statistical programming skills (Python, Java), data management and retrieval acumen (preferably SQL/Spark) and Linux literacy.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work efficiently and multi-task effectively in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment. This will include end-to-end research project work under from data gathering to hypothesis testing and model implementation.

You will enjoy the following benefits:

• Pay: Competitive salary + token ownership
• Learning: Tuition reimbursement, conference and training sponsorship
• Time Off: Generous vacation and unlimited sick days
• Hybrid Work Policy: Flexible in-office days in Vancouver with budget for home office setup
• Full or part time, consultant work also possible. Open to suggestions.