Golang Curve Jobs in Montreal Paying 150,000 USD a Year

Job Description

About Pocket

Pocket Network is the leading decentralized blockchain infrastructure protocol. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of our quickly growing adoption curve. As an open-source, permissionless protocol driving developer adoption, we believe in a future that will enable greater participation in global digital economies and communities.

Our culture

We are committed to building a fun, inclusive workplace and culture based on our values. Our core values inform how we work together as a team, how we service our users, and how we approach the products we build.

We're looking for open-minded, motivated individuals that want to expand the adoption of Web3. We are a fast moving, collaborative, and free thinking team. We're united by our desire to fully decentralize Web3, build amazing products for our users, and create a diverse and welcoming workplace.

About the role

We are looking for a self-starter and growth-minded Protocol Software Engineer who is passionate about working in a transparent environment. The ideal candidate is someone who has experience and understands the importance of balancing R&D and delivery, while being agile, tool-driven, documentation-focused and continuously adapting. It is it is someone who is excited to push themselves outside of their comfort zone and is not afraid to tackle a challenge they haven’t seen before.

Responsibilities

R&D - Research

• Architect and design various components of the V1 Pocket Network Protocol
• Keep up to date and study the latest advances in cryptography, distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks, zero-knowledge proofs and other crypto projects
• Maintain and improve the protocol specifications to guarantee its security, efficiency and clarity by building diagrams, peer-reviews and periodic updates
• Build diagrams, write specifications and present results from research with the team and community
• Participate in design and ideation meetings with the team and community

R&D - Development

• Implement protocol level features using GoLang
• Adopt, design and build tooling to optimize and ease the development process of the V1 Pocket Network protocol
• Write and maintain documentation that’ll reduce the barrier of entry of protocol development to others
• Work closely with the QA team to align on requirements and build an industry leading test suite to guarantee the security of the network
• Work closely with the Infrastructure team to align on requirements and build an industry leading infrastructure to deploy, monitor and interact with Pocket nodes

Community Leader

• Participate in contributor hours, community channels, answer questions, and review external contributions
• Onboard, mentor and lead new engineers as they join the project either as core team members or external contributors
• Document new tasks with a high level of detail that can be taken on by other team members or the community
• Proactively practice, maintain and enforce the use of good software engineering practices and the contribution guide to maintain a healthy codebase
• Collaborate with the core team and external contributors in both design sessions and pair coding sessions

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related field or transferable industry experience
• Experience in at least one of: GoLang, Python, Rust, C++, Erlang
• Linux experience
• Ability to proactively manage tasks, work and operate as part of a team
• Ability to identify and decompose ambiguous tasks into structured, composable and understandable deliverables
• Passion to work in a transparent, fast-paced environment alongside a team that is building the foundation of Web3

What we are offering

• Base salary
• POKT Token Package
• Remote work and a flexible work schedule
• Generous paid time off, Healthcare & Benefits

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Job Description

Here at Volume, we work with the best partners to make decentralized finance protocols valuable. We solve problems of protocol utility, governance, and growth for the leading DeFi protocols. From our team effort, we are able to drive massive growth of user transactions and the launch of the protocol economy. If a protocol fails to attract user activity, token value falters and innovation will flow away from the network.

Volume delivers software tools and user experiences that increase protocol token utility and community engagement, measured by protocol transaction volume growth. The Volume team’s interests are the protocol interests: Growth of user transactions.

Volume's investors include Solona, Curve, Solana, TRGC, NewForm Capital HustelFund, SimplyVC, and many others.

We are always looking for individuals who desire a high-impact, high-visibility role within a company that is making crypto and decentralized protocols valuable.

About the Role:

As a Senior Golang Engineer, and Protocol Architect, on our Engineering team, you will have a chance to lead engineering work across the full spectrum of our protocol architecture that is built around the Cosmos-SDK, built in Golang, Rust and Solidity. Our software empowers validators to secure the Paloma Blockchain Protocol which aims to the fastest, safest, decentralized messaging protocol. As an early employee you will be a critical part of our core team and have a significant influence over the direction of the company.

Responsibilities:

• Participating in and driving technical specifications, design, architecture, and implementation for new features on the Cosmos SDK
• Writing reusable libraries and custom logic for blockchain state machines and ensuring solid test coverage
• Participating in code reviews
• Minimizing tech debt while strategically pushing for progress with new features
• Help scale the team and create our engineering culture
• Participation and leading coordination for one or more of the SDK’s architecture working groups

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 (FIVE) years working with Go in production, as well as solid experience in some other programming languages
• Degree in Computer Science is REQUIRED
• Able to meet deadlines deliverables
• You enjoy learning and digging into open source code, committing on other projects
• You can organize yourself well, and can work in an agile manner
• You enjoy a healthy balance between working autonomously and collaborating closely with peers through pairing sessions and architecture design meetings
• You enjoy analyzing solutions and can participate in defining good architecture
• Good written communication in English is essential
• Previous experience working remotely and/or leading teams is a plus
• Previous experience maintaining open source software (particularly libraries and/or frameworks), a plus
• Previous experience working with the Cosmos SDK or related technologies, a plus
• You are curious about blockchain, have used DeFi dApps and believe in the opportunity of decentralization and blockchains to change how the financial world works today
• You thrive in a startup environment and feel best working in a small, cross-functional team where you can roll up your sleeves and be hands on
• You have an interest in working in a self organizing environment and bring creativity to start your own initiatives within the Cosmos Stargate SDK

Perks & Benefits

*** H1B US Visa Sponsorship and Visa Transfers** * Unlimited Vacation (Globally) * Health Insurance (Globally) * Annual Bonus (Cash, Stock, Tokens) * Quarterly Performance Bonus (Cash, Stock Tokens) * OpenSource Development

Interview Process

• Take Home Golang Programming Assignment. Passing Grade of 9/10 or better required.
• Pair Programming Interview with Volume Engineers
• Final Job Offer Interview with CEO

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