Careers at Nomic Foundation
Our users are building the decentralized future
The Nomic Foundation is a non-profit advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. We build runtimes, compilers, build systems, and deployment solutions that are used by tens of thousands of users. Our focus is on empowering developers to decentralize the world. You can help.
Why join Nomic
Your impact
At Nomic, every person makes a difference. You will clearly see the impact that you contribute to our mission and Ethereum itself. Your team’s top-level results will be meaningfully different due to your contributions, and you will be able to pinpoint the exact contribution you made to upgrading a nascent industry’s stack.
Deep technical challenges
We tackle deep developer infrastructure projects that are usually only available in larger organizations. We build runtimes and compilers used by tens of thousands of users.
Mission-driven value creation
Your contributions will directly impact an ecosystem that is shaping the future of finance, data, and ownership. You won’t be working on optimizing a revenue stream to increase shareholder profits; you’ll create value for the Ethereum community and developer ecosystem.
Lean and robust
We run robust engineering practices and lightweight processes that provide us with structure and fast decision-making. Your time will be spent on technical challenges, coding, and launching features.
Our values
Crypto & Ethereum belief
We believe in blockchain technology as a force for change that will produce meaningful value for society through innovation. We believe in Ethereum as a movement and technology, and we are aligned with its values. We actively participate in the community, and we aim to contribute to the long-term growth of the ecosystem.
Social Impact
We care about creating value for the world and Ethereum’s community in a meaningful way.
Developer Experience
We consider a smooth building experience essential for ecosystem growth, and we take pride and pleasure in making software easier to build.
Time is Precious
We are respectful of people's time, including that of our users, the Ethereum community, external contributors, and our own team members and organization. Aiming for fast and efficient is our default.
High Standards
We aim to take the hard path without compromising quality or losing our sense of pragmatism.
Level Up
We always try to improve at all levels: individually, in our projects, and as a team. Beginner's mindset.
Instigate Change
When we see room for improvement, we point it out and seek iteration, even if it's outside our direct responsibilities or areas of expertise.
Autonomy
To create space for deep focus, schedule flexibility, and effective async remote collaboration, we strive for autonomy in how we approach work and collaboration.
Kindness
We value and only hire people who embody respect, compassion, empathy, and kindness.
Culture
We are an impact-driven remote team of 16 individuals coming from different walks of life. We look for alignment on mission and values as key aspects when we hire.
Benefits
Join us
Hiring Process
- Application
- Intro call
- Technical Screen
- Project Review
- Architecture
- Coding
- Leaderships Interviews
- Offer
- Reference Checks
FAQ
The core interviews take about 2 weeks, followed by the offer and reference checks stage.
We hire within UTC+1 to UTC-4 time zones. Although we work asynchronously, hiring in these time zones allows for 3-4 hours of overlap between team members.
If you’re reading this you’re on your way there! We encourage you to get familiar with Nomic and our core values. Additionally, looking into our open source projects will give you an idea of what we are building. Once you get invited to interview with us, our talent team will share more information about the interviews, what to expect, and how to prepare.
We use Deel to employ team members internationally.
Our workflow is based around asynchronous collaboration, relying heavily on written communication through Slack and Notion to maximize the time engineers spend on deep, uninterrupted, focused work. On Mondays, we kick off each week with a short team call. Every 2 weeks we schedule an unstructured team social, and we meet in person twice a year.
Our teams are small, up to 4-5 people each. All engineers. We have team leads who also write code. The Engineering team is led by the Head of Engineering.
We loosely follow Scrum and OKRs for quarterly and yearly planning.
Ethereum has a need for meaningful effort on public goods, and the non-profit model allows for a clean set of incentives that align well with the interests of the ecosystem. In addition to that, the open-source projects we focus on aren’t great business opportunities. Organizations that build similar projects tend to be very large (big tech) and they do so to support their core businesses, rather than to make money off these projects.
We are backed by contributions from community members who recognize the essential role of developer experience in advancing Ethereum as a platform for software development.
It mirrors the early-stage tech startup world, but with different incentives, motivations, and definitions of non-financial success.
The ultimate goal is impact and not profit, that’s the only difference.