Golang Benchkram Software GmbH Jobs in Germany Paying 100,000 USD a Year

Job Description

WalletConnect is the open-source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps. Started four years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. Every month, millions of people use WalletConnect in over 200 integrations.

We’re looking for a backend golang engineer to join our team to build and scale our network. To help grow web3, we recently launched WalletConnect 2.0 with new features, including multi-chain support, a decentralized back-end, faster connections, and 10x performance and scalability. You will help us expand and scale our backend messaging infrastructure.

To learn more about our plans for 2.0, take a look at our recent presentation at EthCC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBIw7lFNnU

Requirements

You will be responsible for building Golang messaging services. A main challenge is growing our services to scale for our millions of users across billions of websocket connections every month, as well as ensuring security and resiliency.

To help with your role, you will have the support of our devops team to deploy and manage our infrastructure, will work closely with our protocol and SDK teams, and have exposure to the full WalletConnect stack.

The ideal candidate is immersed in the best practices of golang at scale, messaging systems and Websockets.

Responsibilities:

• Building a microservice architecture based on Golang with scaling in mind
• Work with protocols such as Websockets, gRPC
• Help with monitoring by creating metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
• Develop unit and integration tests for core business logic
• Work closely with our devops team to manage and scale our infrastructure

Must have:

• 3+ years professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Golang, TypeScript, C++, Java, or Rust.
• At least 1 year of professional Golang experience.
• Experience using Postgres, AWS, with demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation.
• You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development
• Experience working on products at scale

Nice to have:

• Experience working on systems optimisation
• Experience with k8s or Nomad a plus
• Desire to learn more about Blockchain technologies or experience with PoS systems.
• Familiarity with operations/SRE and the concept of infrastructure as code
• Websocket experience

Benefits

What WalletConnect offers:

• Fully remote position with flexible timezone (CET/EST preferred)
• Competitive salary
• Company equity
• Coworking allowance

Job Description

Chorus One is close to releasing a validating node for the Cosmos network. We are actively searching for a Blockchain Engineer to build validating nodes for other decentralized networks. The work consists of reviewing codebases of other decentralized networks, designing a path forward to deploy validating nodes using our internal infrastructure and to ensure operational security in deployed infrastructure. This position is a unique opportunity to work with a very experienced team on cutting-edge decentralized networks and financial services around cryptocurrency.

Responsibilities:

• Review core codebases of decentralized networks such as LivePeer, Tezos, Cardano and map out infrastructure requirements for validating nodes.
• Design, implement and merge additional functionality in codebases of said networks, as needed, to make validating nodes compatible with our infrastructure.
• Write functional and integration tests to verify software upgrades in blockchain networks for which company runs validating nodes.
• Design and implement processes to reduce the lead-time of deployment of validating nodes in new blockchain networks.

The ideal candidate:

• Is able to work independently. Has a minimum of 2-3 years work experience with a medium size company or a startup.
• Possesses either Bachelor or advanced degrees in Computer Science or allied fields.
• Needs to have prior production experience / strong interest in pure functional languages (Haskell, OCaml). Go language skills are a plus.
• Has work experience with distributed algorithms. Prior experience with blockchain clients such as Go-Ethereum, Bitcoin Core, Tendermint or similar is a plus.
• Is curious and able to take initiative in team discussions pertaining to business economics and business opportunities.
• Keywords pertaining to tools: Functional languages, Haskell, OCaml, Golang

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity.
• 5 weeks annual leave.
• Full-time position.
• Location: Remote work.
• Work on cool technology and interesting problems at the intersection of finance, cryptocurrency, information security and DevOps.