About the Ethereum Foundation
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to helping Ethereum become an open decentralized infrastructure for the world. We allocate resources to critical projects when needed and step back when others can take the lead.
Role summary
We are looking for a developer to join the Ethereum Foundations Account Abstraction & Interop efforts. You will focus on improving the developer experience (DX) for both ERC-4337 and EIL (Ethereum Interoperability Layer) helping developers build test and integrate with these protocols.
This role combines hands-on tool development with applied protocol knowledge. Youll create and maintain frameworks plugins and testing environments that make it easier for developers to adopt account abstraction and cross-chain interoperability.
About the team
The Chain & Account Abstraction team works at the cutting edge of Ethereum usability focused on:
Account Abstraction (ERC-4337) enabling smart contract wallets and alternative transaction flows:
EIL (Ethereum Interoperability Layer) - connecting L1 and L2s.
Key responsibilities
Your mission is to lower the barriers to experimentation and adoption by providing powerful user-friendly developer tools and testing environments.
Depending on your skills and interests you will contribute to a subset of the following:
Build and maintain
Foundry Hardhat viem and plugins to support ERC-4337:
Local test environments
UserOperation (UserOp) building encoding/decoding and error decoding
Develop a gas estimation toolkit:
Per-account and per-paymaster validation gas analysis
Designing implementing and supporting new integrations with external projects protocols and developer frameworks
For the new EIL interop protocol design and maintain a multichain testing framework and documentation
Document your work and collaborate closely with researchers protocol developers and ecosystem partners.
Required skills & experience
Strong experience in
Ethereum development tooling (Foundry Hardhat viem
or similar). Solid knowledge of smart contract development (Solidity contract deployment testing debugging).
Familiarity with ERC-4337 and account abstraction concepts.
Comfort with cross-chain or multichain development.
Past contributions to open source Ethereum projects are highly valued.
Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a distributed asynchronous team.
Curiosity initiative and a willingness to keep learning.
Logistics
Fully remote full-time position.
Flexible hours though overlapping with Western Europe time zones is a plus (especially around Eth oclock 14:00 UTC).
Occasional travel to Ethereum events is encouraged but not required.