Web3 Developer Advocate Job Description Template

The web3 developer advocate helps external developers build successfully on the protocol, through documentation, sample code, support and direct engagement. The role is a genuine engineering job with a communication focus, and its value shows up in how quickly a capable developer can get from the documentation to something working. Feedback from that experience is usually the most useful product input the team receives.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Write and maintain developer documentation and integration guides
• Build sample applications and reference implementations
• Support external developers through forums, Discord and office hours
• Produce technical content including tutorials and talks
• Represent the protocol at hackathons and developer events
• Gather developer feedback and advocate for it internally
• Build and maintain software development kits and developer tooling
• Test the developer experience regularly and report the friction honestly
• Support integration partners through their build
• Contribute to open source projects in the ecosystem

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience

Required Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of software engineering with meaningful web3 experience
• Ability to build real applications on the protocol
• Excellent technical writing
• Comfort presenting to developer audiences
• Patience supporting developers of varying skill
• Understanding of what makes a developer experience good or frustrating
• Experience maintaining documentation as a product
• Public examples of technical writing, talks or open source work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience running or judging hackathons
• Contributions to widely used developer tooling