Python Engineer (Mid)

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Valory

Mission

Valory creates open-source software for co-owned AI, enabling joint operation and control of AI software for novel use cases in crypto, science, and enterprise. Our mission is to empower communities, organizations, and countries to co-own AI systems, starting with decentralized autonomous agents.

Products

We co-founded Olas DAO and have created the first services using it and the Olas Stack.
We have also built a hosted platform for removing DevOps hassle from running said services: Propel.

Team

Valory is the VC-backed team of engineers, researchers and commercial executors that raised a successful Seed round and executed a successful public token launch for the Olas DAO.

The Role

You’re a driven person with good Python skills and some transferable experience, who is aligned with our values. You enjoy approaching new challenges in a structured way to ship solutions quickly and efficiently.
You are excited to join Valory, a startup that is pushing the autonomous edge of AI, learning from and contributing to the team that having pioneered Olas (a single network for all the stuff that makes crypto work, which incentivizes Python developers to create decentralized autonomous agents, ultimately enabling co-owned AI).

Main Duties

• Rapidly learn and contribute to Valory’s agent services and frameworks, adding, maintaining and improving code components and/or entire services that are efficient, effective and easily maintainable
• Write comprehensive tests to ensure code meets predefined requirements. Identify issues in the code and debug them to improve the service's functionality.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data scientists, and product managers, to deliver machine learning additions to Valory’s products.
• Document your work thoroughly, including experiments, and results, reporting proactively on your findings.
• Provide feedback, including code reviews, seek and learn from others’ feedback, and support fellow team members (particularly junior ones) to foster a collaborative work environment.
• Deliver to internal and external customers: you ensure you have implemented, coordinated, and communicated changes/fixes and checked that the customer is satisfied before considering a task done.
• Stay up to date with crypto and AI trends

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in Python on a daily basis
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design, asynchronous programming and networking programming, Python libraries (Django, Flask), best practices (e.g. linting, auto-formatting, static analysis, etc.) and testing (unit, integration, end to end).
• Experience of working in a team in a collaborative manner
• Proven willingness to acquire new programming skills and concepts
• Alignment with our values, including mission over ego, clarity through writing and pushing the autonomous edge.
• Interest in web3 and AI, particularly running autonomous agents
• Bonus: Open-source and/or Web3 contributions
• Strong preference for time zone between UTC -2 to UTC +6.

Equal opportunity

We are an equal opportunity workplace.
We want folks who add diversity on as many axes as possible to bring their expertise, encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply, and are committed to promoting equality of opportunity.
We prohibit discrimination or harassment based on protected characteristics (including gender, race, ethnicity, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or marital status).
We also respect the wishes of individuals to protect their anonymity online and encourage individuals who operate under pseudonyms to apply.

The Opportunity

• Generous salary and equity compensation, accounting for benefits.
• Remote (Valory is a fully distributed team from day one with biannual meetups).
• Be a part of a unique and novel project that will push web3 forward and be harnessed in whichever domain crypto goes – finance, media, data, identity.
• You will work on a unique software stack and product with a team of world-class software engineers, researchers, and product experts across multiple fields.
• You will collaborate with teams across Crypto and our community of agent developers.
• You will redefine how developers build off-chain services in DeFi and long into web3’s future.