Principal Developer Advocate

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

  • Grow Base builder community by engaging with creators to help their projects flourish
  • Craft technical content to equip developers with the knowledge they need to succeed at building onchain
  • Collaborate with other builders at hackathons to assist them in creating new projects
  • Make it easier for builders to create onchain apps by creating imaginative open source tools
  • Identify builder needs and obstacles and work with the Base product and engineering teams to find creative solutions

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

  • Substantial computer science foundation, with the ability to build productively onchain with all of the popular onchain libraries. You’ll be coding at least 20% of the time
  • 7+ years of software development experience with at least 2 of those being onchain development
  • Effective written and verbal communication abilities, including the knack for simplifying complex subjects into easily comprehensible ideas
  • Capability to thrive in a dynamic, occasionally uncertain setting with limited supervision
  • Experience with building and participating in onchain communities that are focused on creating public goods and funding creators to build
  • Alignment with Base’s mission and desire to create a better world

Nice to haves:

  • Experience with Go and Rust
  • Experience building in a startup or for an open source project