Penumbra Labs

Penumbra brings privacy to proof-of-stake, allowing users to transact, stake, swap, and marketmake without disclosing their personal information, account activity, or trading strategies to the entire world – while still permitting selective disclosure to appropriate parties. Working at Penumbra Labs is a unique opportunity to work on exciting problems and build new financial infrastructure, and offers a collaborative work environment and a meaningful stake in the creation of a new protocol. Penumbra Labs and the Penumbra ecosystem are known for building in public and creating a welcoming but high-level space to contribute and engage in this process. The Penumbra community is small but growing quickly. As the scope of our testnets expand and mainnet approaches, we expect there to be a much larger audience that would like to engage with Penumbra on Discord, Twitter, and other channels. We need a Technical Community Manager to help with user and validator relations and community...

Penumbra brings privacy to proof-of-stake, allowing users to transact, stake, swap, and marketmake without disclosing their personal information, account activity, or trading strategies to the entire world – while still permitting selective disclosure to appropriate parties. Working at Penumbra Labs is a unique opportunity to work on exciting problems and build new financial infrastructure, and offers a collaborative work environment and a meaningful stake in the creation of a new protocol. What Penumbra is Penumbra is a private-by-default proof-of-stake network. Penumbra provides private transactions in any kind of cryptoasset, using Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) to connect to other chains. It also has a novel staking mechanism that provides accountability for validators but privacy for delegators, allowing them to privately stake, earn rewards, and participate in governance. Finally, Penumbra provides ZSwap, a decentralized exchange integrated with its shielded pool....

Penumbra brings privacy to proof-of-stake, allowing users to transact, stake, swap, and marketmake without disclosing their personal information, account activity, or trading strategies to the entire world – while still permitting selective disclosure to appropriate parties. Working at Penumbra Labs is a unique opportunity to work on exciting problems and build new financial infrastructure, and offers a collaborative work environment and a meaningful stake in the creation of a new protocol. Role: We are seeking a talented Frontend Engineer to join our team and play a crucial role in building a best-in-class user experience for our web interfaces and creating external web developer tooling. As a Frontend Engineer, you will be at the forefront of translating protocol API’s into intuitive interfaces. Your work will directly impact the usability and adoption of Penumbra, as well as enable third-party developers to build on top of our platform. The right candidate will drive...

Penumbra brings privacy to proof-of-stake, allowing users to transact, stake, swap, and marketmake without disclosing their personal information, account activity, or trading strategies to the entire world – while still permitting selective disclosure to appropriate parties. Working at Penumbra Labs is a unique opportunity to work on exciting problems and build new financial infrastructure, and offers a collaborative work environment and a meaningful stake in the creation of a new protocol. Unlike normal transparent blockchains, Penumbra has a different paradigm and interaction model with what data goes on-chain publicly and what data is computed off-chain per user privately. Penumbra needs a creative and mission-driven designer to help develop the visual language of Penumbra to make these nuances intuitive; extending from identity to UI/UX of specific applications. Some of this development work exists within Penumbra Labs and others live with ecosystem teams and community...

Penumbra brings privacy to proof-of-stake, allowing users to transact, stake, swap, and marketmake without disclosing their personal information, account activity, or trading strategies to the entire world – while still permitting selective disclosure to appropriate parties. Working at Penumbra Labs is a unique opportunity to work on exciting problems and build new financial infrastructure, and offers a collaborative work environment and a meaningful stake in the creation of a new protocol. The Penumbra Labs General Counsel is a critical role to help support the Penumbra Labs organization and its contributions to the greater Penumbra network and ecosystem. You are committed to using your legal expertise to support open source software development, protocol design, ecosystem growth, and to best serve Penumbra’s users. You are driven to optimize for an organization and ecosystem’s success and provide necessary guidance. You are someone who is personable, enjoys meeting new people...