Description of Role

The Ethereum Foundation's annual Developer Conference, Devcon, is expected to host ~4000 attendees at its next iteration. The Devcon Team wants to allow attendees the option to pay for their ticket using various Layer 2 & Scaling solutions in an effort to lower transaction costs (gas fees) for attendees. We currently allow ETH and DAI payments via a custom-built ETH-payment-plugin for the open-source ticketing platform Pretix, and we would now like to build the functionality needed to accept and automatically confirm payments coming in from L2s (and other Ethereum scaling solutions).

We are looking for a contracted Python Developer to develop & expand on our open-source plugin to make it possible for customers to pay for a Devcon ticket with funds they have on Layer 2. The particular Layer 2s and scaling solutions we have in mind for integration are zkSync, Optimism, Matic, among others, but the priority of each will be open to discussion.

*Note 1: ***We do not intend to assist with/walk customers through the process of onboarding & off-boarding funds via L2. We simply want to give the option to those who already have funds on L2 to use them to pay for a Devcon ticket.

Note 2: Devcon is currently indefinitely postponed, we are optimistic it will be possible soon and are still working hard to make it the best one yet (hence this effort 😁*).*

Who is our ideal candidate?

The perfect candidate for this temporary project will be:

• Someone with extensive Python knowledge (Pretix and our plugin are both built in Python)
• Familiarity and passion for blockchain web3 development
• Familiarity with L2 (and other scaling) solutions a plus, but L2 development experience not necessary
• A great communicator with a passion for the Ethereum ecosystem
• Able to define timelines for their work and stick to them.

Term

• Start as soon as possible.
• Exact time commitment can be discussed and will depend on which L2s we decide to integrate with, but we estimate between 80 and 160 hours for this project, with the potential to continue supporting further features of this ETH payment plugin.
• This will be a contractor-style role where billing will be based on the number of hours worked.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Developer will be expected to partake in discussion and provide input and opinions on which L2s to prioritize, best practices for integration, etc.
• Developer will be responsible for integrating L2 solutions into the Pretix Ticketing platform.
• Developer will be responsible for tracking progress in the esPass Github (Pretix Repo) here: https://github.com/esPass
  • Python Dev. will need to work with team members to merge progress into Pretix staging environment.

What We Have