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<div>At Mento Labs we aim to create a world in which the economy is denominated in local stable assets and to enable real world adoption of digital currencies. To build sustainable stable assets and a platform that is used and loved by people and institutions around the world, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. Mento Labs is a technical powerhouse that combines engineering and economic excellence dedicated to building out the open and decentralized Mento platform and ecosystem.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>As General Counsel, you will develop, build, and lead the overall legal and regulatory strategy for Mento Labs and with that shape the Mento platform. This will include acting as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team members on legal matters, and advising on a wide range of legal issues, including complex regulatory aspects. The ideal candidate is a clear communicator, highly analytical, and possesses the necessary skills and experience to work effectively in a team.</div>

At Mento Labs we aim to create a world in which the economy is denominated in local stable assets and to enable real world adoption of digital currencies. To build sustainable stable assets and a platform that is used and loved by people and institutions around the world, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. Mento Labs is a technical powerhouse that combines engineering and economic excellence dedicated to building out the open and decentralized Mento platform and ecosystem. 

As General Counsel, you will develop, build, and lead the overall legal and regulatory strategy for Mento Labs and with that shape the Mento platform. This will include acting as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team members on legal matters, and advising on a wide range of legal issues, including complex regulatory aspects. The ideal candidate is a clear communicator, highly analytical, and possesses the necessary skills and experience to work effectively in a team.


<li>Reviews, researches, interprets and prepares both written and oral opinions on a wide variety of legal issues.&nbsp;</li><li>Drafts, reviews, and approves policies and procedures, contracts, bylaws, and other legal documents</li><li>Mitigate risk and provide business-oriented solutions across the company for complex, high-stakes matters</li><li>Partner with relevant local, state, federal, and international government constituents</li><li>Advise on a wide range of legal issues, including complex regulatory aspects.</li><li>Provide practical and strategic advice to business clients, with the ability to summarize and communicate complex legal concepts to make them operational and usable for the business.</li><li>Develop and implement legal guidelines, processes, and policies.</li><li>Remain current on relevant industry standards, laws, and regulations.&nbsp;</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to support the continuous improvement of legal support and processes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><div><br></div>

<li>Advanced law degree with admission to practice law in Germany.</li><li>10 years of relevant experience, either in-house or at a law firm, with a focus on contracts, processes, and policies.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience working on many different projects simultaneously, with the ability and skill to prioritize.</li><li>Experience building consensus across cross-functional stakeholders.</li><li>Comfortable and adept at balancing legal risk and thinking creatively to affect business needs.</li><li>Team-oriented with excellent judgment and a positive attitude.</li><li>Highly organized and responsive to tight deadlines.</li><li>Experience and interest in blockchain, decentralized ledger technology, and cryptocurrencies preferred.</li><li>Experience in the payments field preferred, ideally experience with so-called stablecoins.</li><li>Simultaneously an independent analytical thinker and high-energy team player.</li><li>Ability to manage the details without losing sight of the big picture.</li><div><br></div>

<div>cLabs is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our Blockchain Team. Our team is responsible of the Celo's blockchain node; that is the software that maintains a p2p network; where the validators reach consensus new blocks, that then every other nodes syncs &amp; validates. Our node is based on go-ethereum software with several transformations (like the consensus engine) that makes the Celo blockchain unique. Our main challenges are scaling the network, improving its security and resiliency; and adding new features to the Celo ecosystem that can only be done at the node's level (like paying gas with an ERC20 token).</div><div><br></div><div>We work alongside other engineering teams within cLabs. This includes other platform teams such as the Contracts and Primitives team, as we constantly access smart contracts as part of our operations, and the Economics team, to design and implement the right incentives for our validators and full nodes. We also partner with user-facing teams such as the Wallet and Developer Experience teams, as a big part of our job is to make end users' and contributors' lives easier. This is a role with wide exposure to many areas of the stack, and you'll quickly get acquainted with all the moving parts in a modern blockchain project.</div>

cLabs is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our Blockchain Team. Our team is responsible of the Celo's blockchain node; that is the software that maintains a p2p network; where the validators reach consensus new blocks, that then every other nodes syncs & validates. Our node is based on go-ethereum software with several transformations (like the consensus engine) that makes the Celo blockchain unique. Our main challenges are scaling the network, improving its security and resiliency; and adding new features to the Celo ecosystem that can only be done at the node's level (like paying gas with an ERC20 token).

We work alongside other engineering teams within cLabs. This includes other platform teams such as the Contracts and Primitives team, as we constantly access smart contracts as part of our operations, and the Economics team, to design and implement the right incentives for our validators and full nodes. We also partner with user-facing teams such as the Wallet and Developer Experience teams, as a big part of our job is to make end users' and contributors' lives easier. This is a role with wide exposure to many areas of the stack, and you'll quickly get acquainted with all the moving parts in a modern blockchain project.


<li>Design, architect &amp; implement solutions within the celo blockchain (layer 1 &amp; 2), solutions examples include but are not limited to network protocols, decentralized protocols, systems throughput optimisations, scalability.</li><li>Collaborate with Product Team to hit key product milestones by writing high quality, well tested code</li><li>Coach &amp; Mentor other engineers in a constant learning culture.</li><li>Perform and participate in code reviews</li><li>Work in a high performance scrum team</li>

<li>4+ years of experience working on distributed systems, ideally within the blockchain space</li><li>Experience working with backend programming languages and frameworks such as Go, Java, or C++</li><li>Autonomy &amp; ability to design complex systems</li><li>Passion for growing others</li><li>BONUS: Good understanding of blockchain related cryptography (public key, BLS signatures, MACs, etc)</li><li>BONUS: Experience with low level database programming</li><li>BONUS: Experience working on systems optimization</li><li>BONUS: 2+ years of experience working with Go</li>

<div><span style="font-size: 11pt">At Mento Labs we aim to create a world in which the economy is denominated in local stable assets and to enable real world adoption of digital currencies. To build sustainable stable assets and a protocol that is used and loved by people and institutions around the world, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. Mento Labs is a technical powerhouse that combines engineering and economic excellence dedicated to building out the open and decentralized Mento protocol and ecosystem. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Mento Labs is seeking a Senior Smart Contracts Engineer to join our Engineering&nbsp; Team. As part of the Mento Labs you will help design and develop Mento's core smart contracts and help develop best practices and processes to ensure those smart contracts are secure.&nbsp; This includes the core stability mechanism, multi-chain deployments and decentralized reserve management.</span></div>

At Mento Labs we aim to create a world in which the economy is denominated in local stable assets and to enable real world adoption of digital currencies. To build sustainable stable assets and a protocol that is used and loved by people and institutions around the world, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. Mento Labs is a technical powerhouse that combines engineering and economic excellence dedicated to building out the open and decentralized Mento protocol and ecosystem. 

Mento Labs is seeking a Senior Smart Contracts Engineer to join our Engineering  Team. As part of the Mento Labs you will help design and develop Mento's core smart contracts and help develop best practices and processes to ensure those smart contracts are secure.  This includes the core stability mechanism, multi-chain deployments and decentralized reserve management.


<li>You'll be writing production-level code in Solidity, Typescript, and some rust/go/python.</li><li>You'll be gathering requirements from Product Managers, Engineering Partners, and other key internal and external stakeholders in order to determine and implement changes to our core Smart Contracts</li><li>You'll facilitate the guiding of the proposed changes to the core Smart Contracts</li><li>You'll collaborate with third-party Smart Contract Auditors to ensure the quality assurance of the proposed changes as they go through our smart contract release process</li><div><br></div>

<li>You have at least 4 years of experience in software engineering primarily working in any of Typescript, Go, Rust, python.</li><li>You have 1 - 2 years of experience in Solidity programming and using development frameworks like Foundry, Hardhat or Truffle.</li><li>You have prior experience in deploying complex smart contract systems to a public blockchain (e.g. Ethereum)</li><li>You are knowledgeable of the Ethereum Virtual Machine.</li><li>You have experience working with cloud-based platforms especially Google Cloud Platform</li><li>You have experience with CI/CD pipelines and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)</li><div><br></div><li>BONUS: You have experience working with third party smart contract auditors such as OpenZeppelin, Certora</li><li>BONUS: You have worked on a smart contract system that have processed high dollar volume amount</li><li>BONUS: You have knowledge of past and common smart contract exploits and know how to avoid them</li><div><br></div>

Senior Smart Contracts Engineer, Mento Labs

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