Smart Contract Engineer / Spell Crafting - Dewiz
deCircle · Remote · Posted November 27, 2024
- Who can apply
- Switzerland
Zürich, Switzerland
- Pay
- Not stated in the posting
- How you’d be employed
- Employee
- Location in the posting
- Remote job · Zürich, Switzerland
- Skills required
- Solidity, EVM, Foundry, Hardhat, Smart contracts, Mocha, Chai, Remix, Ganache
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From the posting
Dewiz is an Ecosystem Actor within the Sky Ecosystem (formerly MakerDAO), one of the most battle-tested and capitalized ecosystems in DeFi, historically responsible for pioneering decentralized stablecoins (DAI) and managing billions in on-chain liquidity. As part of Sky’s Endgame architecture, the ecosystem is evolving into a network of specialized, autonomous actors, each responsible for specific verticals such as governance, risk, growth, and protocol execution.
Dewiz sits at the core of protocol execution, you can think of it as:
- The team responsible for shipping and upgrading core smart contract logic
- The interface between governance decisions and on-chain implementation
- A high-trust execution layer, ensuring changes to the protocol are secure, efficient, and aligned with the system’s long-term design
Why This Role Exists
As Sky continues to scale and evolve its architecture (collateral systems, vault mechanics, governance primitives, and new financial instruments), there is an increasing need for:
- Highly secure smart contract development
- Efficient execution of governance-approved upgrades ("Spells")
- Protocol-level innovation across DeFi primitives
This role sits within the Spell Crafting team, responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying the smart contracts that directly shape the evolution of the protocol.
What You’ll Work On
Smart Contract Engineering
- Design, implement, and deploy Solidity-based smart contracts powering core protocol functionality
- Build and execute governance “Spells” that modify system parameters and logic
Protocol Design & Evolution
- Collaborate with ecosystem actors (risk, governance, product) to define new mechanisms
- Contribute to the architecture of lending, collateralization, and stablecoin systems
Security & Reliability
- Conduct deep audits of smart contracts and protocol changes
- Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities (reentrancy, oracle manipulation, etc.)
- Maintain production-grade reliability for contracts managing billions in TVL
Performance & Gas Optimization
- Optimize contract execution paths for efficiency at scale
- Balance cost, complexity, and security trade-offs
System Integration
- Integrate contracts with frontends, off-chain systems, and governance tooling
- Work closely with tooling around execution pipelines and monitoring
Architecture & Systems Thinking
- Contribute to broader system design decisions across the Sky ecosystem
- Ensure coherence between protocol layers (governance → execution → state transitions)
Research & Innovation
- Stay ahead of emerging standards (ERCs, account abstraction, new DeFi primitives)
- Explore new mechanisms for capital efficiency, risk management, and automation
- Deep expertise in Solidity and the EVM
- Strong understanding of DeFi primitives (lending, AMMs, collateral systems, stablecoins)
- Proven experience with smart contract security and auditing
- Hands-on experience with gas optimization and performance tuning
- Familiarity with tools such as Foundry, Hardhat, Remix, Ganache
Engineering Mindset
- Ability to reason about complex financial systems
- Strong ownership and ability to operate in high-autonomy environments
- Experience collaborating across distributed / async teams
Testing & Quality
- Experience writing robust unit + integration tests
- Familiarity with frameworks like Mocha, Chai, or Foundry equivalents
Communication
- Clear communicator with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs
- Comfortable working in a pseudonymous, remote-first environment
Bonus Points
- Contributions to open-source DeFi or protocol-level projects
- Experience with multi-chain ecosystems (Solana, Cosmos, etc.)
- Exposure to zero-knowledge systems (ZK-rollups, zk-SNARKs)
- Previous experience working within a DAO or decentralized org
- Familiarity with MakerDAO / Sky architecture (MCD, DSS, governance flows)
Why Join Dewiz
Direct Impact on a Top DeFi System
You’ll be working on infrastructure that secures and moves billions in capital, shaping how decentralized finance evolves.
Deep Protocol Ownership
This is not feature work, you’ll operate at the core protocol layer, influencing how the system behaves at a fundamental level.
Unique Organizational Model
- Pseudonymous collaboration
- High autonomy, low bureaucracy
- Direct alignment with decentralized values
Front-Row Seat to Sky’s Endgame
Be part of one of the most ambitious transformations in DeFi, moving from a monolithic DAO to a modular, AI-augmented, actor-based system
Growth & Technical Depth
Work alongside engineers and researchers pushing the boundaries of:
- Stablecoin design
- Governance systems
- On-chain execution infrastructure