Python Engineer (Senior)

Python Engineer (Senior)

Company details

Description of the offer

We do not accept applications without a personalized note explaining your interest in and suitability for this particular role with us.
Compensation varies based on the type of engagement. Independent contractors may have higher rates than employees due to differences in tax and benefit structures.

The Vision

Mission

Olas is the platform that enables true co-ownership of AI. Launched in 2021 as one of the first Crypto x AI projects, today, Olas powers the largest AI agent economies with millions of transactions. Learn more at olas.network.

Products

With Olas’ Pearl, the first “AI Agent App Store”, any consumer with a laptop can use AI agents they truly own. With Olas’ Mech Marketplace, the “AI Agent Bazaar”, businesses can put their AI agent up for hire to earn crypto and tap into other AI agents’ services. Today, Olas’ AI Agents serve diverse use cases – from prediction markets and asset management to influencer agents – autonomously creating valuable outcomes. The OLAS utility token provides access to the platform’s benefits and coordinates agent interactions in entire AI Agent economies.

Team

Valory is the team you’d be joining, working on Olas (the open-source technology governed by the Olas DAO). Valory is VC-backed team of engineers, researchers and commercial executors that raised its own successful Seed round and co-created Olas, executing a successful public token launch and subsequent $13.8m raise for the Olas DAO.
We believe Artificial General Intelligence will likely be agentic and must be co-owned. Read more about our values.

The Role

You are a Senior Python engineer with deep expertise in building complex, high-performance systems, passionate about (decentralised) finance and emerging autonomous technologies. You have experience driving architectural decisions, shaping core components at the foundation of a system, and guiding peers through collaboration and technical leadership. You bring strong knowledge of open-source Python frameworks with a proven track record of shipping production-grade systems. You thrive in a startup setting where ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence are key. You are excited to join our world class team building a cutting-edge DeFi agent that manages on-chain assets autonomously, pushing the frontier of decentralized finance and AI-driven agents. Learn more here. You are excited to work in line with our values, constantly pushing boundaries as the original agent project in the rapidly-expanding AI agent space.

Main Duties

• Develop the BabyDegen family in line with the product roadmap set by the Product Manager and management.
• Coordinate with the Product Manager to lead technical design on new components within the context of a complex, multi-component system with an emphasis on strong cross-component interoperability.
• Rapidly learn and contribute to Valory’s agents and agent frameworks, adding, maintaining and improving code components and/or entire agents that are efficient, effective and easily maintainable
• Write comprehensive tests to ensure code meets predefined requirements. Identify issues in the code and debug them to improve the service’s functionality.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data scientists, and product managers, to deliver machine learning additions to Valory’s products.
• Document your work thoroughly, including experiments, and results, reporting proactively on your findings.
• Provide feedback, including code reviews, seek and learn from others’ feedback, and support fellow team members (particularly junior ones) to foster a collaborative work environment.
• Deliver to internal and external customers: you ensure you have implemented, coordinated, and communicated changes/fixes and checked that the customer is satisfied before considering a task done.
• Stay up to date with crypto and AI trends

Requirements

• 4+ years experience in Python on a daily basis (or 2+ years experience in Python and an additional 2+ years with a widely used compiled language)
• Strong understanding of Python libraries (Django, Flask), best practices (best practices Python (e.g. linting, auto-formatting, static analysis, etc.) and testing (unit, integration, end to end).
• Experience of working in a team in a collaborative manner
• Proven willingness to acquire new programming skills and concepts
• Alignment with our values, including mission over ego, clarity through writing and pushing the autonomous edge.
• Interest in web3 and AI, particularly running autonomous agents and DeFi
• Bonus: Open-source and/or Web3 contributions, experience with multi-agent systems
• Strong preference for time zone between UTC -2 to UTC +6.

Equal opportunity

We are an equal opportunity workplace.
We want folks who add diversity on as many axes as possible to bring their expertise, encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply, and are committed to promoting equality of opportunity.
We prohibit discrimination or harassment based on protected characteristics (including gender, race, ethnicity, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or marital status).
We also respect the wishes of individuals to protect their anonymity online and encourage individuals who operate under pseudonyms to apply.

The Opportunity

• Generous compensation, accounting for benefits.
• Remote (Valory is a fully distributed team from day one with biannual meetups).
• Be a part of a unique and novel project that will push web3 forward and be harnessed in whichever domain crypto goes – finance, media, data, identity.
• You will work on a unique software stack and product with a team of world-class software engineers, researchers, and product experts across multiple fields.
• You will collaborate with teams across crypto and our community of agent developers.
• You will redefine how developers build off-chain services in DeFi and long into web3’s future.

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