Staff/Principal Full Stack Blockchain Engineer

Please note that this role is full-time in-office and based in Boston, MA. At Groma we're building GromaCoin, an onchain asset that represents fractional ownership in the Groma Real Estate Trust and that delivers yield, appreciation, and stability while taking advantage of the composability and other unique traits enabled by tokenization. With over $350MM+ in real estate under management and a proprietary, AI-powered technology platform to run it efficiently, GromaCoin is already the largest real estate asset on chain, and we’re just getting started. Visit www.groma.com to learn more about us. About the Role This role will join a small team of 7 senior software engineers and will be the first full time blockchain engineering hire. As the primary owner for Groma's onchain tech stack, we're looking for someone that has spent enough time in the space to have developed the wisdom to see around corners and guide the team in the right direction, paired with significant hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining smart contracts in a production environment on EVM networks (Ethereum and Base) and connecting them to backend and frontend interfaces. Specific nice-to-haves include experience with RWAs/real estate, a variety of token standards, representing securities with compliance constraints on-chain (e.g. ERC-3643), and building on DeFi protocols like Morpho and Uniswap. Outside of role-specific expertise, the most important traits for someone joining the team will be: Startup interest . We’re an early stage company and still have a lot left to figure out. There will be lots of ups and down, we don’t yet have all of the answers yet and you’ll be a part of finding them. Product mindset . As a startup, we need to be fast to identify and solve problems across the business. We do not have a product team, so we expect engineers to be comfortable working directly with stakeholders throughout the business to understand their needs and build pragmatic solutions to them. Technical breadth . As a small team, it’s highly valuable for each member to be able to operate across the entirety of our technology stack. This means being willing and able to work on backend and frontend development, our blockchain infrastructure, or occasionally even some spreadsheet hacking. Desire to move fast . As an engineering team, we care about building reliable, secure, and easily-maintainable systems, but also recognize the need to move very quickly as we operate within a fast-moving startup. This means finding the right balance between quality and delivery speed. The core technologies that the team uses are: Languages : Python, TypeScript, Solidity Frameworks : Django, React Infrastructure : Google Cloud, Postgres, Ethereum This is a role for someone that can quickly ramp up to execute independently and effectively across the range of technologies described above. You do not need to be an expert in everything mentioned, but should be very comfortable building web applications in Django or a comparable framework and at least interested in learning the rest. About our Culture At Groma, we’re looking to build something big and are on a fast growth trajectory. A healthy work-life balance is important to our team, but we also expect a high degree of commitment from every team member. We strive to respect individuals and their needs, while also acknowledging the reality that we have a small team that is trying to accomplish some very ambitious goals in a short period of time. We are also focused on maintaining our dynamic in-office culture at Groma’s headquarters in beautiful downtown Boston, Massachusetts. We believe that in-person collaboration and spontaneous interpersonal interaction is critical to the company’s success at this stage. Also, our office is great. We own the whole building and have made it very much our own space. We’ve got a gym, locker rooms, a game room, a rooftop garden, and all the normal stuff to make an office an effective and fu…