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ARES Tech is a fast-growing company that provides an all-in-one end2end solution and community for blockchain developers and users.
We’re a small team that runs the kind of infrastructure you always wanted to help build up!
We are looking for a Senior Developer who is capable of performance-oriented and well-structured programming. You will work as part of an international team on the development of Blockchain applications / Decentralized applications (DApp or ĐApp).
What we expect
✦ Relevant work experience building distributed systems with open-source tech stack
✦ Several years of experience in C/C++, Go or NodeJS
✦ Knowledge in go-ethereum / Parity API / RPC / web3.js or other similar tools
✦ Knowledge in server side application framework (Express, Hapi, …)
✦ Understanding of basic distributed consensus methodologies (Mining, PoS, ...)
✦ Experience with agile software development, ideally with Scrum
✦ Fluent in English, German is not a must
✦ Bonus points: Knowledge in Smart Contract, distributed storage systems (IPFS) and Golem
✦ Bonus points : Knowledge in one or more task runner (Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, …)
✦ Bonus points: You have a cryptocurrency wallet : )
What we offer
✦ Signing Bonus in ETH, so... please prepare your wallet : D
✦ Interesting possibilities for your personal development with challenging projects and a personal conference budget
✦ Development of great products and the opportunity to inspire our customers by providing the benefits of blockchain technology with extraordinary game experience
✦ A great, performance-oriented, friendly and international TEAM is looking forward to meeting you
✦ MacBook Pro or Windows or any kind of digital devices that make your work easier
✦ One of the nicest offices in Berlin Mitte, near by Rosenthaler Platz and Nordbahnhof! Including free Club Mate, Coca Cola, fruit, pool table, table tennis, a terrace, and many more
✦ Office party, party and parties! Team events, BBQs, kicker & table tennis
✦ Flexible work hours
✦ Full-time or Part-time even Freelancer? no matter, let's start immediately ! Again... with ETH as Signing Bonus!
Contact us
mail(at)arestech.io
please including salary expectations and earliest possible start date.
Location: USA (East Coast), Europe & Canada (East Coast)
About the company
Xata.io is a fully distributed startup building a serverless database service. We all work remotely, usually from home, and we meet in person a couple of times per year in a nice location (once the pandemic allows).
Having founders with management experience from Elastic, Xata is well financed by amazing investors, including Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Shay Banon (co-founder and CEO of Elastic), Neha Narkhede (founder of Confluent), Elad Gil, Christian Bach and Mathias Biilmann (founders of Netlify), and many others.
If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply. We are challanging ourselves to build a healthy culture that allows us to build innovative and succesful products.
Our founder, Monica Sarbu, founded a non profit organization called tupu.io that helps tech companies support diversity in tech through mentorship.
About the role
This role is unique because you will be part of the initial team that builds the technical architecture, designs the product, and iterates quickly to react to customer feedback. If you are looking for greenfield development on a highly technical product that you can influence directly, this role is for you! We believe in well-tested and clean code, simple architectures, progress over perfection, and addressing technical debt early.
We value work-life balance, we don’t track hours and we don’t count PRs. We evaluate productivity and quality over a 3-4 months period.
Requirements:
Significant experience in developing performant systems-level software, preferably in Golang, but C/C++, Java, Rust are also valued.
Nice to haves:
Experience with various Cloud services, especially serverless platforms
Experience with database systems
BSc/MSc in Computer Science
We offer:
Competitive salary based on your location and stock options
Friendly and diverse work environment
Flexible schedule, work from anywhere you are productive
Headquartered in London, the FinTech capital of the world, Form3 are building the most exciting banking technology company on the planet. Our mission is simple: transform payments technology to enable the global financial community to move money in real-time.
CULTURE
Being a tech-first business, we place emphasis on thinking outside-the-box. By utilising the latest cloud-native technologies we find innovative solutions to problems that others would deem unsolvable. We live and breathe open-source, prioritise best-practice and automation while Slack is at the heart of everything we do.
We advocate a positive work-life balance and offer a super flexible, remote-friendly working environment. We don’t mind whereabouts our Engineers are based as we are happy for our team to work from anywhere in the UK or EU, with most of them choosing to work remotely most of the time. However, we also have offices in London and Amsterdam, so should they ever wish to work from these, they are most welcome.
ENGINEERING TEAM
Our Engineering Team consists of over fifty Senior Engineers that are responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our platform, from architecture through to infrastructure. Individually they are all exceptional at what they do, but by working collaboratively within a team, consistently applying best-practice and automating absolutely everything they build world-class software for our customers.
There are a wide range of problems to tackle as an Engineer at Form3, from configuring nginx proxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic. It’s very much a “best tool for the job” mentality here and our tech-stack is forever evolving. Our primary programming language is Go however we do have some services written using Java, Python and Ruby.
We are looking to speak with Senior Engineers that are EU citizens and based in the UK or EU with;
Experience or interest in Go programming language
Understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
Appreciate the DevOps culture and the value of automation
Place emphasis on code quality, BDD/TDD and software development best-practice
Are passionate about technology and enjoy working collaboratively within a team
Have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages
For more information on Form3 please visit our website or take a look at our company profiles on StackOverflow, GitHub and LinkedIn.
Perks & Benefits
• 100% remote working • 30 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays) • Great tech-stack, challenging projects and an exceptional team of Senior Engineers to work alongside • Regular paid trips to London to spend time with our awesome team • Tech-first FinTech scale-up with limitless possibilities to progress your career
We’re looking for a Tech Lead – Backend Services to bridge the gap between product vision and development. You’ll mentor engineers, ensure high code quality, and balance fast-paced development with building scalable, reliable systems.
What You’ll Do:
* Lead & mentor the backend team, ensuring best practices and high-quality code.
* Architect & optimize backend services and cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
* Code & build – contribute hands-on to feature development and infrastructure setup.
* Collaborate with product leads to define roadmaps, ETAs, and tech strategies.
* Innovate by exploring new tools, driving technical excellence, and improving processes.
What You Bring:
* 8+ years in software engineering with a focus on highly scalable Go-based microservices.
* Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).
* Strong database expertise (SQL, NoSQL, distributed systems).
* Leadership & project management skills – aligning teams, solving blockers, driving progress.
Perks & Benefits:
* Hybrid work (2 remote days/week), 30 vacation days, 3 weeks/year remote work.
* Relocation support: visa assistance, relocation bonus, German classes reimbursement.
* Well-being: in-house gym, personal trainer, yoga classes, mental health support.
* Culture: team events, hackathons, and a dog-friendly office in the city center.
We value diversity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
Senior Backend Engineer Commit Remote (Canada) $110,000 to $140,000 a year
August 2022
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Commit
Commit is a VC-backed professional network built for engineers by engineers. We are currently hiring Senior Back-End Developers looking to join some of North America’s most innovative startups as one of their first engineers.
We exclusively work with financially stable startups with great salaries and exciting tech stacks who prioritize engineers’ growth and have exceptional team culture. We provide the information you need to make the best decision for yourself and continue cultivating your craft.
Why Commit?
No technical interviews!
Work with over 75 pre-vetted impactful startups in North America
Gain access to transparent salary bands AND mentorship to grow your career
Collaborate with like-minded tech junkies
Build new tools with Node, Golang, Ruby and much more!
Go through a short 3-step interview process with Commit. Learn more.
If you’re accepted into the program, you’ll be paid a full salary while we work together to match you to an aligned startup.
Once matched, you pilot a startup for 3 months. If you love it, you stay with them; if not, we’ll work together to find a better match.
What You’ll Get
Full-time paid employment as an Engineering Partner
Base salary of $115K to $140K CAD depending on experience
Extended health and dental plan for you and your family
The right equipment to do your best work
Access to your own career coach and a mentor for your job search
We provide 15 vacation days on top of statutory holidays while you're part of the Engineering Partner program. There is no limit on Sick Days or Personal Days
Invitation-only events with technical leaders
We’ve been lucky to have guests like Katie Wilde (VP Engineering @ Buffer), Armon Dadgar (CTO @ Hashicorp), Gokul Rajaram (board member at DoorDash, Coinbase, Pinterest and The Trade Desk) and many others join us for private learning sessions.
We are a fully distributed, remote-first community launched in Vancouver. We raised $6M from Accomplice, Inovia Capital, Kensington Capital Partners and Garage Capital.
Who You Are
Eligible to work in Canada
4+ years of software engineering experience
Experience working on SaaS, marketplace, consumer or infrastructure
Entrepreneurial mindset and growth-oriented attitude
Ambitions of excellence in your craft. Some of our past EPs have grown into CTOs, principal engineers, and joined companies as the first engineer
Understanding of Basic DevOps: MongoDB, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes/Terraform, CI/CD
Understanding of RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL
Understanding of cloud-native distributed systems and microservices
Experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, cloud infrastructure, product design
We believe that language is a tool. It’s more important that you have experience with one or more modern coding languages than that you have experience with any particular language itself.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
As an early-stage startup, we know it’s critical to build inclusive processes as a part of our foundation. We are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.
If you require accommodations during any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know how we can best support you.
Senior Backend Engineer Phil Remote (United States) $180,000 to $200,000 a year
January 2022
7 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
The Company
Founded in 2015, Phil is a San Francisco-based Series D health-tech startup, pioneering a software therapy deployment platform, offering pharmaceutical manufacturers a modern alternative to traditional access, affordability and distribution options. Through its digital stakeholder experiences, patient access services, market access solutions and distribution models, pharma manufacturers are able to deliver affordable and timely therapy access to patients. For more information on Phil, visit https://phil.us/
Job description
We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team and help build and scale our backend workflow engine/platform
The Job
Design and implement a rule-based workflow engine that handles complex prescription management and processing logic
Develop tools and algorithms to test and measure the performance of the workflow engine
Work closely with product managers to understand business problem, help them with technical feasibility of the implementation, requirement validation, and review the designs as well as business flows
Design, implement, test, and launch Phil's backend services and API platform for multiple consumer apps.
Work collaboratively with remote Dev and QA teams reviewing implementation and answering queries about the platform. -Strong motivation to clean technical debt keeping an eye on new business flows, evolving requirements, and platform scalability and robustness
Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code
Full stack development with knowledge of javascript frameworks like React, Angular etc a plus.
Requirements
Experience building rules engine-based processing and or workflow management systems
Experience building and maintaining secure, end-to-end systems and services using any language. Experience in golang and MongoDB prefered
Deep understanding of algorithms and efficient data structures
Experience working with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle – ranging from architecture and design to implementation and testing.
Strong critical thinking, debugging and problem solving skills
Experience building systems and services for health-tech company is preferred
Sense of ownership: you would develop, manage, and evolve the core logic of Phil platform and features
Strong interest in understanding the underlying business and the problem we want to solve using technology
Benefits
Ground floor opportunity with one of the fastest-growing startups in health-tech
Solve a problem that matters: be part of a company that uniquely leverages technology to bring wellness to all of its stakeholders
Competitive compensation (commensurate with experience) including meaningful stock options
We’re looking for a full-stack developer/software engineer who wants to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.
You’ll have a passion for great coding, an ability to plan out and work with high volumes of data to join our growing team of existing developers!
All in all, we process over 4 billion products daily, throwing up a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match. And through the insights gained, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that drive forward online retail growth.
Redbrain, Europe’s biggest Google Shopping partner. We’re absolutely smashing it in the UK and across Europe last year alone driving over £500 million in incremental sales to over 5,000 retailers.
This is an opportunity to join a team of talented problem solvers, looking at untangling complex problems and finding simple solutions. Through your work, you will have a direct impact on how the world's leading retailers grow their online sales.
We believe engineers write code for other engineers and not just for machines, therefore we celebrate clean and smart code!
If you’re keen to support us on our mission to build the world’s best incremental sales engine, take a look at what we have on offer.
Job is linked to our Birmingham office, we're Remote first with 1 office day every two weeks.
Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions.
You’ll own the design and development of large-scale high-performance services using technologies such as Golang & Kubernetes.
You will be a great team player, providing and seeking useful feedback from other members of their team, and seeking opportunities to help out within the wider business.
The software engineer will be able to manage their own workload, estimate tasks well and prioritise when issues arise.
We’re looking for someone who cares deeply about building flawless product features while challenging our thinking on software architecture.
You’ll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering team.
Someone with a passion for building performant and reliable systems, and is always up for a challenge.
We’re looking for engineers with:
Possess programming language expertise in one or more languages, such as Go,Java, C++, C#, Python or Typescript with a passion for learning new languages.
Expertise in engineering practice, including knowledge of engineering and architectural principles
Proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and any relevant hardware
Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers
Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies
A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech
Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver
**As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:
**
Competitive salary (up to £80,000 dependant on experience)
Remote-first environment
Company pension
Group life assurance of 10x fixed annual salary up to £500,000 cover
Training budget for internal and external training and conferences
25 days holiday plus all Public UK holidays
The very latest tools & tech
Flexible working hours
NO AGENCIES - Please note we do not accept applications from agencies. We will treat all CV's submitted as Direct Applicants.
Tech Lead in Blockchain Consulting MLG Blockchain Toronto / Boston / San Francisco, United States / Remote $60,000 to $140,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
We are looking for an autonomous and self-motivated senior developer with management expertise to take blockchain projects and teams from start to finish. You will be responsible for specific parts delivering full blockchain projects to clients, and managing tech teams in house and with strategic partners. Managing expectations and helping out whenever necessary will be a must. Strong knowledge of the blockchain industry and previous coding experience is also a must.
MLG Blockchain Consulting is the fastest growing Blockchain consulting agency in Canada. We have grown from 4 to over 50 employees in 6 months, and expect to continue at this pace for the months to come. We work in a decentralized model, allowing you to work from anywhere. The physical HQ is in Toronto, with offices in Montreal and Rotterdam. This is an opportunity to join one of the hottest industries in fintech, and become an expert in the internet 3.0.
Type of person we are looking for:
You are a systematic leader with previous leadership experience scaling teams
You are autonomous and have a growth mentality - willingness and ability to grow teams and manage multiple large scale projects/team at once
You have at least 6 years of professional experience architecting and developing multiple large scale applications simultaneously
You have extensive knowledge of both front and back-end technologies and development
You love high growth start-ups, like to get your hands dirty and have previously developed SaaS products
You are a coder at heart and enjoy managing and growing engineering teams
You can deal with lots of complexity and enjoy solving challenging problems
Experience in decentralized application deployment and maintenance
You are a great communicator, know how to motivate others and have an enthusiastic and positive personality
You are a hands-on team player with an entrepreneurial spirit
Nice to have - You have experience working with a publicly traded company
Strong experience with blockchain technology including solidity, hyperledger, truffle, etc
Strong experience with backend programming languages such as golang, javascript, python
English at a full professional proficiency level
Working with technology vendors and handling negotiations
Proven track record of leadership in attracting, developing and retaining talented staff who deliver results
Experience with Agile a plus
Experience with Cloud based infrastructure
For MLG
Build a code repository - Take an increasing amount of projects in house.
For Every ICO or Post-ICO You Work On
Architecting and developing smart contracts
Managing smart contract and token sale page security audits
Architecting and development of decentralized applications and platforms to implement tokens
Scaling development team and writing weekly progress reports
Open Lines Of Communication - Work as the direct and first line of communication between client and MLG.
Help create schedules - Whenever schedules of all the deliverables are built, we will need to build gantt charts and other project management timelines in order to ensure everything is properly delivered on time.
Manage events - From time to time you will have the opportunity to take on events. In these cases you will be responsible for ensuring everything is done correctly for events. You will have the support of the executive team but autonomy is key.
Bi-Weekly Progress Reports - Draft and send bi-weekly progress reports showing the client what has been done and what they should expect. You can use already existing resources as a base for these documents.
Manage large teams - Projects will require you manage timelines that may require involvement from more than one division at a time.
Work with other partners - As we are a turn-key ICO and post-ICO services agency, we have strategic partners that we often work with for specific parts of the project.
Work with freelancers - MLG has many freelancers to turn to for urgent requests like banner creations, writers, designers, assistants, etc. You may have to work with some and should be comfortable delegating easy to replicate tasks.
Stay active in the crypto community - Head out to events to represent your clients and personally post news about clients in select groups, forums, etc.
Work With Other Team Members - Work with team in a decentralized manner via Slack.
We are looking for a motivated individual that knows about the blockchain world and understands how blockchain development works, where to find and how to work with existing open source software, and who has the ability to create and push best practices within the industry.
His/her job will have two main facets. First is related to post-ICOs, taking charge of helping develop the decentralized applications which are powered by the token. Second is related to ICOs, helping to develop the tokensale and crowdsale smart contracts and security audits.
Staff Backend Engineer (Go) Stream Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Remote (EMEA) €70,000 to €120,000 a year
September 2023
8 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are seeking a skilled Staff Software Developer to join our team. This role is open in our Amsterdam office (relocation is possible), or remotely (EU or UK-based).
What you will be doing
You'll focus on one of the most used Products: Chat, as well as the brand new Video & Audio API.
A big portion of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding.
On typical projects, you will have a lot of freedom and you will be paired with another team member.
Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience.
By working together you will learn from each other along the way. Not only that, you will have an enormous impact!
Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission-critical features such as showing content and exposing the core functionality of their application.
Responsibilities
Add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster.
Help make our API service faster, more scalable and more flexible.
Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
Design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production.
Engage with customers and help them to use Stream in their app.
The challenges:
Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat.
Real-time messaging
High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range.
High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability.
High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire datacenter crashes.
Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents.
About you
You have:
7+ years of backend development experience.
Proficiency in Go language is strongly preferred.
Experience with high traffic and high performance applications.
Solid knowledge of relational databases.
Experience with building HTTP APIs.
Experience managing your own projects and work in a team.
Bonus points:
Experience with JavaScript and web development frameworks such as React or Angular.
Experience with one (preferably few) of the following languages: Rust, Java, C, C++, Erlang, Node.js, Python.
Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ.
Experience with automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Experience with designing and building REST API’s.
Experience with cloud-based platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Our tech stack
At Stream we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimised and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries.
Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use.
Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favourite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:
Go, Python, NodeJS
Postgresql, CockroachDB
AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
Redis, Memcached
Why join Stream?
History of success. From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in-between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available, with best-in-class support.
Freedom and endless growth opportunities. As a rapidly growing startup (since 2020 we have gone from 30 to 150 employees), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. The opportunity of true ownership and accountability has a massive impact on your career. These are the things you can rarely experience in huge corporations.
Be on the front line of progress and innovation. While working with cutting-edge technology, we are passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them, empowering engineering teams to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience.
They believe in us: Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).
What we have to offer you
Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:
A team of exceptional engineers
The chance to work on OSS projects
28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays
Company equity
A pension scheme
Remote work flexibility
A Learning and Development budget
Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or the option to use a company bike within the city
Fitness stipend
Monthly in-office chair massages by a professional
MacBook Pro
Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
A generous relocation package
An office in the heart of Amsterdam
The opportunity to attend or present at global conferences and meetups
The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO
Parental leave paid at 100%
Note: this list of benefits applies to Netherlands-based employees and is adjusted per your location of residence.
Our culture
Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Now, Stream is a team of over 130+ peers from over 35 countries across the globe.
We value transparency, aim for excellence, and support each other on our way to new victories.
Our team consists of the strongest talents worldwide, making Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.
When it comes to software engineering, our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.
If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!
Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3.
With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.
As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community.
As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper).
As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 150+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe.
We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.
About Waku
We are building Waku as a public good infrastructure. Waku is uncompromising Web3 communication at scale. It is a decentralized, censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving communication network that enables anyone to send and receive messages without worrying about surveillance or deplatforming.
We are enabling Ethereum builders to create new projects with a fully decentralized architecture, think dApp to Wallet notifications, NFT marketplaces, censorship-resistant chat, layer-2 and more.
Waku enables a variety of complex use cases and applications. To facilitate the adoption of Waku, you will design and implement application protocols to provide to dapp developers as off-the-shelf SDKs.
Waku.org
Key responsibilities:
* Design, plan, coordinate and execute the integration of Waku in Status Communities application (status-go).
* Liaise with Status team to understand Status’ product requirements and roadmap.
* Liaise with Waku team to understand Waku’s features, limitations and roadmap.
* Drive design discussion of the integration of Waku in Status Communities; Communicate risks and cost effort to stakeholders.
* Learn, maintain, improve and troubleshoot the chat related functionalities of status-go codebase; Report issues to Waku and Status teams.
* Beyond 3-6 months: strategize and execute the creation of Chat SDKs (Golang, JS, etc) using knowledge acquired working on status-go; Build your own team of engineers.
**You ideally will have: **
* Experience building applications with complex logic, cutting edge technology or applied research.
* Experience interfacing with product managers or business analysts, able to hold technical complex discussions with product oriented professionals as well as highly-skilled developers.
* At least, 5 years experience as a Software Engineer, including at least 3 years as a Golang Developer.
* At least, 3 years experience as Team Lead, Tech Lead or Engineering Manager.
* Already in the blockchain and decentralized technologies space or familiarity with it; you understand how they work.
* Strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles.
[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].
Bonus points if:
* You have experience working in chat/instant messaging applications.
* You have experience leading the integration of a complex tech stack in an application.
* You are already familiar with the Ethereum community, Web3 or blockchain development
* You are working for an open source organization.
Hiring process:
* Chat with people ops
* Chat with Waku Lead
* Pair programming with Go-Waku Developer
* Chat with Logos Lead
[The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline].
Compensation:
The expected compensation range for this role is $90,000 - $120,000 (dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process).