Senior Python Engineer

Job description:

We’re hiring at Valory! Join our team.

Our Mission

Olas is the platform that enables true co-ownership of AI. Launched in 2021 as one of the first Crypto x AI projects, today, Olas powers the largest AI agent economies with millions of transactions. Learn more at olas.network.

Our Products

With Olas’ Pearl, the first “AI Agent App Store”, any consumer with a laptop can use AI agents they truly own. With Olas’ Mech Marketplace, the “AI Agent Bazaar”, businesses can put their AI agent up for hire to earn crypto and tap into other AI agents’ services. Today, Olas’ AI Agents serve diverse use cases - from prediction markets and asset management to influencer agents - autonomously creating valuable outcomes. The OLAS utility token provides access to the platform’s benefits and coordinates agent interactions in entire AI Agent economies.

Our Team

Valory is the team you’d be joining, working on Olas (the open-source technology governed by the Olas DAO). Valory is VC-backed team of engineers, researchers and commercial executors that raised its own successful Seed round and co-created Olas, executing a successful public token launch and subsequent $13.8m raise for the Olas DAO. We believe Artificial General Intelligence will likely be agentic and must be co-owned. Read more about our values.

The Role

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Python Engineer with a passion for decentralized finance and emerging autonomous technologies. You have deep experience designing and building complex, high-performance systems, from architecture to implementation, and thrive in environments where ownership and technical excellence drive every decision. You’re fluent in modern, open-source Python frameworks and have a proven record of shipping production-grade systems at scale. You enjoy shaping architecture, mentoring peers, and solving problems that don’t have playbooks yet.

At Valory, you’ll join a world-class team pioneering the next evolution of DeFi: building autonomous on-chain agents that manage digital assets without human intervention. You’ll help push the frontier where AI meets decentralized finance, working on BabyDegen - our cutting-edge DeFi agent and one of the first of its kind.You are excited to work in line with our values, constantly pushing boundaries as the original agent project in the rapidly-expanding AI agent space.

Main Duties

• Drive the development of the BabyDegen family, translating the product vision and roadmap into robust, production-ready systems.
• Lead technical design in collaboration with the Product Manager, ensuring new components integrate cleanly and efficiently within a complex, multi-system architecture.
• Rapidly learn and contribute to Valory’s agents and agent frameworks, taking ownership of adding, maintaining and improving performant, production-grade agents.
• Champion code quality through comprehensive testing, rapid debugging, and continuous performance optimization
• Collaborate across functions to lead the design and integration of machine learning features, shaping Valory’s next generation of autonomous products.
• Produce thorough, high-quality documentation of experiments, outcomes, and design decisions, ensuring knowledge is shared effectively across the organization.
• Lead by example, providing feedback (including code reviews), learning via others’ feedback, and supporting fellow team members to elevate the entire team.
• Take full ownership of your work - from implementation to stakeholder communication - ensuring every change meets expectations and delivers measurable value before considering a task done.
• Stay ahead of the curve on DeFi, crypto, and AI developments - we move fast and iterate even faster.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience writing production-level Python (or 2+ years Python and 2+ years in a compiled language such as C++/Go/Rust).
• Deep understanding of Python frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI) and modern engineering practices - linting, auto-formatting, type checking, and automated testing.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you thrive in a high-autonomy, high-trust environment.
• Proven ability to design and ship complex, distributed systems or high-throughput backends.
• Alignment with our values, including mission over ego, clarity through writing and pushing the autonomous edge.
• Interest in and keenness to dive into emerging areas like AI agents and decentralized systems.
• Bonus: Open-source contributions or Web3 development experience, familiarity with multi-agent systems or reinforcement learning concepts, demonstrated passion for DeFi, cryptoeconomics, or automation.
• Location: Fully remote, but candidates must be based in London to join occasional in-person team meetups.

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, colour, 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 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.

Please note

• We do not accept applications without a personalized note explaining your interest in and suitability for this particular role with us.
• Compensation varies based on the type of engagement. Independent contractors may have higher rates than employees due to differences in tax and benefit structures.

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