3 open roles
Help us fund the people building Oriel
We are 14 people in Zug, Lisbon and remote. Every posting shows its salary band, and every role is paid in Swiss francs or euros, never in tokens.
Team
14 people
Offices
Zug and Lisbon
Time to offer
3 weeks
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Open roles
Three roles open now
Full time · Remote, UTC+0 to UTC+3
Grants lead, Africa
€78k to €92k
Run Oriel grants across Africa: find strong teams early, guide them through each round and follow their milestones.
What you will do
Find and review applications from teams in Lagos, Nairobi, Accra and beyond
Run the call with each team and write the review for the council
Check milestones and release payments with the treasury team
What we look for
Three years or more in grants, venture or developer programs
A network among builders in at least two African markets
Clear written English; French is a plus
Full time · Zug or remote
Protocol researcher
CHF 130k to 155k
Work on the open problems under Oriel: fee markets, light clients and safer payment channels. Every paper you write is open access.
What you will do
Pick a problem with the research council and publish on it twice a year
Turn results into specs and code with the core developers
Review papers and proposals from the fellowship program
What we look for
A PhD or published work in cryptography, distributed systems or economics
Code you can show, in Rust, Go or Python
Patience explaining hard ideas to engineers
Full time · Lisbon
Developer advocate
€70k to €84k
Help developers ship their first app on Oriel: write the guides, run office hours and bring their feedback to the core team.
What you will do
Write and keep up the guides, starter kits and sample apps
Run weekly office hours and the Lisbon meetups
Bring what developers struggle with to the core team every two weeks
What we look for
Two years or more building and shipping web or smart contract apps
Writing or talks you can link to
Portuguese or Spanish is a plus
How we hire
From application to offer in three weeks
Apply
A CV and a few lines
Intro call
30 minutes with the hiring lead
Paid task
A small piece of real work
Offer
Within three weeks
What we offer
Clear terms for every role
Salary in fiat
Paid in Swiss francs or euros. The band is in every posting.
30 days off
Plus public holidays where you live and the week between Christmas and New Year.
$2,000 to learn
Every year, for courses, books and conferences of your choice.
Two team weeks
Twice a year the whole team meets in Zug, travel paid.
Don’t see your role?
Send an open application with a few lines on what you would work on. We read every one and reply within two weeks.
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