Rated is on a mission to keep the worlds machines aligned and accountable.

Rated Labs, the developer behind Rated, was founded in 2022 by Elias Simos and Aris Koliopoulos. In the two years since founding we have built the Rated Explorer into a category defining and well loved product, among Node Operators in Web3.

In reality, the work has only just begun!

💼 The role

We are looking for a Lead Protocol Engineer to join Rated Labs.

You will be spearheading the effort to design and build a protocol that will bring our next big product release, onchain. You will be part of a talent-dense, multidisciplinary team, with strong product sensibility and user-mindedness, backed by some of the premier investors in the industry, on a mission to keep the world’s machines accountable and aligned.

🛠️ The skills

• You are deeply technical, and are adept at explaining advanced concepts in cryptography in simple terms.
• Familiarity with both EVM and non-EVM blockchain environments, understanding the unique challenges and opportunities each presents in protocol design.
• Strong understanding of data availability solutions, their trust-assumption vs cost tradeoffs, as well as implications in scalability and security.
• Hands-on experience in developing and deploying production blockchain systems.
• Demonstrable critical analysis and thinking skills.
• Ability to put ideas together into prototypes.
• Bonus points for proficiency in Ethereum Layer 2 and Layer 3 solutions.

👲🏼 The person

• 2+ years in crypto as a Protocol Researcher, Engineer, or Designer.
• You have a good understanding of the overall industry state of the art in terms of architecture components and stacks.
• You are ambitious, intellectually curious, maniacal about details but at the same time value the elegance in simplicity.
• You thrive working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Is ideally based anywhere between CET-1 and CET+1