Compensation: TBD, based on education, experience, role fit, startup needs, and interview process.
Job summary
As a Security Engineer / Smart Contract Auditor, you will support one or more startups connected to Metasoft Capital by helping founders turn early ambition into practical execution. This role is built for remote startup environments where priorities can change quickly, information may be incomplete, and useful work depends on clear writing, steady ownership, and good judgment.
The role focuses on the core responsibilities described for this role. You may work with founders, product teams, technical teams, operations, customers, partners, or investors depending on the startup assignment. The goal is to help the company build secure protocols, decentralized applications, smart contracts, token systems, on-chain analytics, and compliant crypto operations, while building habits that make the team more reliable as it grows.
Core responsibilities
- Own day-to-day work connected to this function, including work that identifies vulnerabilities and performs security reviews for blockchain applications, smart contracts, and protocol systems, keeping priorities clear and progress visible.
- Work closely with founders, product, engineering, operations, customer-facing teams, partners, or advisors depending on the startup's needs.
- Create clear notes, requirements, decisions, checklists, documentation, or reports so work does not depend on memory or guesswork.
- Identify risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and practical next steps before small problems become expensive startup mistakes.
- Help the startup move from ideas and experiments toward usable systems, measurable traction, and durable operating habits.
- Clarify the real user, economic, security, or decentralization problem before choosing chains, protocols, token structures, or Web3 architecture.
- Document assumptions, attack surfaces, dependencies, wallet flows, governance choices, and protocol risks so decisions can be reviewed.
- Collaborate with engineering, security, product, legal, community, and business teams to balance decentralization, usability, compliance, and growth.
- Stay alert to smart contract vulnerabilities, regulatory uncertainty, token incentive risks, and user trust issues that can damage a Web3 startup.
- Design, build, test, review, and maintain systems with enough documentation that other team members can understand and improve the work.
- Participate in technical reviews, troubleshooting, reliability improvements, and practical decisions about build versus buy.
Education and experience requirements
- Education or experience in computer science, cryptography, distributed systems, economics, finance, cybersecurity, compliance, or equivalent Web3 work is helpful.
- Experience with smart contracts, wallets, nodes, protocols, token models, DeFi, on-chain data, audits, or crypto compliance may be required depending on the role.
- Understanding of security, key management, blockchain networks, transaction flows, governance, and user custody risks is valuable.
- Ability to explain technical and economic tradeoffs clearly to founders, engineers, investors, partners, or community members.
- Commitment to responsible Web3 building, not hype, pump-and-dump thinking, or careless handling of user funds.
- Candidates should be ready to share examples of relevant work, projects, portfolios, case studies, writing samples, code samples, dashboards, campaigns, processes, or other evidence of ability when applicable.
Helpful skills and tools
- Solidity, Rust, Ethereum, Solana, smart contract frameworks, nodes, wallets, block explorers, analytics tools, audit tools, token modeling tools, and compliance/KYC platforms.
- Relevant hands-on experience, training, or strong practical interest in blockchain & web3 work and startup environments.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical, non-technical, clinical, creative, commercial, or executive teammates as needed.
- Strong ownership mindset, reliability in remote work, and comfort working with incomplete information.
- Good judgment around quality, speed, cost, security, privacy, compliance, ethics, and customer impact.
- Curiosity, humility, and willingness to keep learning as the startup changes direction, grows, or enters new markets.
- Clear written communication, organized files, practical documentation, and reliable follow-through are important because most teams operate remotely.
Remote startup working style
- Work asynchronously when possible, document decisions, and keep teammates updated on progress, blockers, risks, and next steps.
- Be comfortable with early-stage ambiguity, changing priorities, limited resources, and the need to learn quickly from customers and teammates.
- Use sound judgment to decide when to move fast, when to ask for help, when to slow down, and when to protect quality or trust.
- Respect confidentiality, founder context, customer information, and the trust required to support early-stage companies.
Success in this role looks like
- Successful work produces secure smart contracts, reliable protocol operations, stronger on-chain data, healthier developer communities, safer crypto workflows, and lower technical or regulatory risk.
- The startup builds Web3 systems that are more secure, understandable, and useful for real users.
- Protocol, token, or smart contract decisions are documented and reviewed before launch.
- Community and partner trust grows because the project is built with discipline, not hype.
- The startup team can point to clearer execution, better documentation, stronger collaboration, and practical improvements connected to this role.
How to apply
- Email your resume/CV to Jobs@MetasoftCapital.com and include JID: 1792571 in the email subject line and at the beginning of your message.
- Use a subject line similar to: JID: 1792571 - Security Engineer / Smart Contract Auditor - Resume/CV.
- Briefly explain why this role, a remote startup environment, and the relevant industry or function fit your experience, interests, and learning goals.
- If useful for the role, include links to your portfolio, GitHub, LinkedIn, website, writing samples, case studies, dashboards, design files, campaigns, or other work examples.