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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 successfully launched Sommelier’s first iteration as PeggyJV, bringing the Cosmos Ethereum bridge to market and resulted in Sommelier raising a total $25MM in funding to launch the first automated DeFi blockchain to manage Liquidity Provider capital on Ethereum via the Cosmos. Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Liquidity Providers (LPs) will be able to use Sommelier to author and execute complex, automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing, limit orders, as well as a host of other features that token holders have come to expect from centralized finance (CeFi), but that are not currently available in DeFi.
Our investors include Polychain Capital, Alameda Ventures, Standard Crypto and Multicoin.
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 on our Engineering team, you will have a chance to 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 Sommelier validators to secure the Sommelier network which offers financial automation globally. 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.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
3+ years working with Go in production, as well as solid experience in some other programming languages
Degree in Computer Science, 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 passionate 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
About Volume:
Volume is a dynamic start-up company, and our successful candidate must have the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment. As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.
Volume is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.
We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
Senior Software Engineer Mojito Remote $80,000 to $160,000 a year
January 2022
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Mojito
Mojito is an end-to-end solution for branded NFT marketplaces and tokenized customer engagement. The space is growing at an incredible pace and we are in prime position to be a market leader. Mojito is the first project to graduate from the Serotonin Product Studio and is backed by industry veterans and VCs and partners. We combine technology with design thinking and user empathy to build products that make blockchain accessible to a mainstream audience.
We are passionate about building products for a diverse, global audience and think our team should be a reflection of that. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.
About the role
To maximize this momentum we are growing the team and are searching for a Senior Software Engineer to build APIs and scalable backend systems to power Mojito's NFT marketplaces. You will work with front-end engineers, product managers, and designers to bring next-generation blockchain products into the mainstream. You will be important to moving Mojito's product strategy forward by building sales, payments, KYC, and NFT minting platforms. You will report to the Engineering Manager for the Mojito platform.
What you'll do
Work in an exciting and high-growth startup
Research novel solutions to nuanced and often unchartered engineering challenges
Work with designers, product managers, and engineers to design impactful products
Perform and uphold code best practices.
Produce high-quality code that raises the bar for all engineering team members
Improve scalable distributed systems on the cloud
Improve web applications for performance and scalability
Perform quality assurance/debugging procedures to provide a secure and functional delivery
Implement testing protocols for managing successful deployments across development, staging, and production environments
Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives
Requirements
5+ years experience as a software engineer or similar role
Advanced experience with Go.
Proficiencies with modern database technologies such as Postgres
Expertise with GitHub, GitLab, code repository best practices
Experience giving thoughtful code reviews.
Advanced Experience with AWS or similar cloud-based hosting/server solutions
Experience architecting software and designing data models
Go Developer X-Team 100% Remote $80,000 to $150,000 a year
November 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Most Important:
Excellent programming skills in Golang and at least one production available service with good throughput under their belt
Track record of built and deployed production quality microservices, with a focus on scalability
Previous experience with the development pipeline from end-to-end of production applications
Knowledge of AWS services such as Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Simple Queue Service (SQS), EC2, Lambda…
Previous experience with NodeJS
Experience with RESTful API development
Expertise in continuous performance measurement throughout the application’s lifecycle
Distributed request tracing for profiling and monitoring microservices dependant applications
Working understanding of infrastructure as code
Source control and software versioning experience on Git
Former experience working in an Agile environment
Documentation skills
Nice to have:
Understanding of AWS services
Experience working remotely
Familiar/involved with open source projects
Personal:
Independent
Fluent in English, written and spoken
Problem solver
Proactive attitude
Live Energized:
Get the chance to work with big brands like Riot Games (League of Legends), Sony, Fox Broadcasting, Kaplan Inc. (top education company), Coinbase (#1 crypto exchange), BeachBody (#1 fitness company), etc.
Work from anywhere as part of a community of digital nomads.
Live and work in one of our roaming hacker houses (X-Outposts) around the world:
Be part of the most energizing community for developers in the world by participating in our Seasons, a 3-month experience filled with challenges, rewards, RPGs, competitions, and more, all centered around a theme that will inspire and energize you.
Get $2,500 per year (Unleash+) to spend on doing more of what you love and staying energized. Use it on conferences, courses, video games, photography gear, music gear, cooking gear, a gym membership, adventure sports, baby/pet sitting, productivity apps, restaurants, coworking, movie tickets, headphones, etc.
About X-Team
X-Team is a 100% remote international company, originally founded in Melbourne, Australia. We help companies scale their development teams by providing them with extraordinary teams of developers from around the world.
We believe in living a life of freedom that allows you to spend more time getting energized by your passions. We've fostered a unique, active lifestyle and culture around this idea that continues to attract thousands of developers to apply every day. Our community is the most energizing community for developers in the world.
What separates us from our competition is the level of attention and care we give our developers compared to other more "talent"-based solutions. We proactively support them, fund their learning and growth, connect them in roaming hacker houses around the world, and give them a remote environment that motivates and inspires them on a daily basis. While other companies simply place and drop their talent, we foster and cater to our unified teams of developers centered around the same beliefs, values and lifestyle.
We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age and aid them in being able to do so properly with the right people. We work with big, innovative brands like Riot Games, Fox Broadcasting, Kaplan Inc., Coinbase, Google, Twitter, Beachbody and more…
Who is X-Team meant for?
Any freelance developers with experience working on high-scale, remote teams and projects with a motivated, proactive attitude and compassionate, team-player heart. If you've worked with freelancing platforms before, that's not what we are. X-Team is a community of all likeminded people, carefully chosen to ensure we are able to create an environment of the most motivated people in the world who come together to unleash their potential. What we've created is truly special and not a faceless platform. X-Team is where developers go to feel truly at home together, while becoming more motivated and energized than they've ever been.
Location
Remote / London/ Ireland/ France / Remote (EMEA)
Golang Backend Engineer (Codefi) at Consensys
About ConsenSys
ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company. We enable developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Our product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for our clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain in the world, leading in business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open source foundation, we are building the digital economy of tomorrow. To explore our products and solutions, visit http://consensys.net/.
About Codefi Staking and Data/Compliance
Codefi Staking is an institutional ETH2 staking as a service provider. We are working with some of the world’s largest exchanges and custodians to enable them to offer Ethereum 2.0 staking to their customers.
Codefi Compliance are a set of backend data and compliance services implemented in Go that serve a frontend KYT application (Know-Your-Transaction, scanning on-chain activity of Ethereum accounts to identify suspicious activities) and also other products and applications of ConsenSys.
Role Responsibilities
We are looking for backend Golang developers with production big data pipeline (ETL) and/or application architecture experience.
Required Skills:
5+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer working on production applications
3+ years of Golang backend development experience
Experience with, or understanding of: PostgreSQL and other databases
General interest in DevOps topics / experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Serverless and deploying cloud infrastructure (AWS / Azure)
Building production-grade applications/APIs
Understanding of the Ethereum 1.0 Protocol, on-chain storage and data structures
Experience working on agile projects in an Enterprise setting
Experience working in CI/CD setup
Experience working in a distributed, remote team environment.
Excellent communication skills.
Writing good technical documentation.
Bonus Points for any of:
BSc/MSc in Computer Science or related subject
Experience on big data pipeline (ETL)
Experience with microservices architectures
Experience with Kafka or other messaging technology
Cryptography (for instance Ethereum-related)
Experience in deploying blockchain infrastructure
Other skills to demonstrate:
Excellent verbal and written communication in English
Teamwork, flexibility, initiative, communication and organization
Willingness to constantly learn & improve, challenging yourself to stay at the top of your game
Don't check all of the boxes? Don't sweat it. We’re passionate about building a diverse team of humans and as such, if you think you've got what it takes for our chaotic-but-fun, remote-friendly, start-up environment—apply anyway. While we have a pretty good idea of what we need, we're ready for you to challenge our thinking on who needs to be in this role.
Perks & Benefits
Why join ConsenSys?
One of the most recognized tech companies in the blockchain ecosystem globally. A work experience at ConsenSys is a tremendous reference for your future career. ConsenSys alumni have moved on to become tech entrepreneurs, CEOs, and team leads at tech companies.
The forefront of a revolution. We fundamentally believe blockchain is a next generation of technology that can lay the foundation for a more just and equitable society. You can be a part of building the digital economy of tomorrow and radically transforming our society for the better.
A dynamic startup environment with deep roots. We are one of the earliest blockchain companies and a leader in the space. You’ll join a network of entrepreneurs and technologists that reaches the edge of our ecosystem.
Deep technical challenges. Blockchain technology is just over 10 years old. Ethereum itself is still a toddler. There is much to be done before these platforms can scale to the order of millions or billions of users. We are building the tools, infrastructure and applications l that are pushing the technology forward.
Continuous learning and improvements. You’ll be constantly exposed to new concepts, ideas and frameworks from your peers and as you work on different projects — challenging you to stay at the top of your game.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can turn ideas into reliable, beautifully written code that other people will find easy to comprehend and modify. You have a fundamental understanding of distributed systems and how Linux works behind the scenes. All additional experience in low-level systems is considered to your benefit. Experience and understanding of blockchain are not mandatory.
Responsibilities
Work closely with us as we build additional features, functionality, and applications
Understand Gevulot infrastructure in detail to ideate and execute areas of improvement
Implement and contribute to engineering practices and processes
Qualifications
2+ years of experience in Go, through official work or personal projects
Ability to quickly learn complex systems
Ability to proactively identify issues and find possible solutions
Fluent and active communication skills in English
Preferred Skills
Experience and interest in distributed systems, P2P networking, virtualization, and unikernels
Curiosity for blockchain/cybersecurity
Familiarity with Linux internals, POSIX standards, file systems, and zero-knowledge cryptography
Stack
Linux on x86-64
Nanos unikernel
QEMU
gRPC over VSOCK
Go
Postgresql
What we offer
Fully remote position
Competitive salary
Significant responsibility from day 1
Fast growth environment with opportunities for professional development
Minimal amount of meetings
Free-ish working hours (Some overlap availability needed with EET)
Opportunity to work on the cutting edge of Zero Knowledge infrastructure
Opportunity to gain experience in the blockchain industry and development without prior industry experience
Senior Software Engineer Stellar San Francisco, United States / Remote (United States / Canada) $160,000 to $190,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Open to considering remote candidates in the US & Canada
Interested in helping us change the world of payments forever? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is looking for a talented, experienced, and hands-on engineer to assist partners with integrating into the Stellar network. In this role you’ll be designing, building, and implementing innovative blockchain solutions for our partners. You will lead the way in developing projects, from scoping & system design to development & best practice deployments. SDF’s partners span globally and are some of the most innovative software and financial companies.
What you'll do:
Be involved with all aspects of the software development process - from vision to final implementation.
Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
Build and maintain web services to support the foundation’s mission (creating equitable access to the global financial system).
Identify patterns in developer needs and design new protocols and services to increase developer velocity across our entire ecosystem.
Engage with our community of open source developers and partners on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling our API services.
Provide assistance and guidance for our integration projects with our partners and other organizations on the Stellar network.
Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.
Who you are:
5+ years real-world experience developing or implementing software within enterprise networks
Solid understanding of web technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, JSON, REST, etc
Proficiency with programming languages such as JavaScript, Go, C++, Python, or similar
Ability to lead technical discussions and explain technical details to non-technical people
Independent and results driven. Skilled at working in an environment with dynamic objectives (maybe you even thrive on chaos)
You’re a strong problem solver and fast learner
You’re passionate about top quality code and using the latest best practices
You build software with your users and their needs top of mind
You're a true partner advocate.
About Stellar
Stellar is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts.
About the Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world’s financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation helps maintain Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.
We look forward to hearing from you!
SDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SDF does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.
Go Developer Delphi Digital Remote $100,000 to $200,000 a year
September 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About the company
Delphi Digital is a research-driven firm dedicated to advancing the understanding and development of the growing digital asset market. While our foundations lie in producing institutional grade research for some of crypto’s top funds, institutions and investors, we also consult with leading projects in the space. Most recently, we’ve added a Venture Capital fund in our goal of enabling us to continue driving the digital asset space forward.
Job description
We (Delphi Digital) are working with one of our portfolio projects to build a key element of their stack. Once v1 is ready we would like to spin out the team who can take this forwards, working directly for the project.
About the role:
You will be responsible for building and maintaining one of the key pieces of infrastructure, which takes data from the blockchain, stores in a timeseries database and exposes a JSON API and GraphQL view onto this data for internal tools and 3rd party developers to consume.
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Go developer - ideally having used some technologies such as Timescale, GraphQL, APIs, blockchain (Tendermint) and/or dev ops tech such as Docker.
The position requires strong technical expertise, enthusiasm and a desire not only to write good code, but also deliver value to us and our clients. The position is open to full-time remote developers.
Technical environment:
We iterate fast, releasing early and often but believe in modular, maintainable, reusable code. In order to stay agile, testing is something we apply lightly to projects in the early stages and more heavily once a project is stable.
Tools used:
Go
Timescale
Postgres
Docker
GraphQL.
Benefits:
For those with an interest in the fast moving digital asset space you will have a front row seat to the emergence of decentralised finance - working alongside the best minds in the space. All your work will be open source and will help to move a project forward which has an engaged community of thousands.
Requirements:
Perfect command of English (written and spoken)
At this time per-project contract engagements are preferred but this could change over time. Full-time preferred, but part-time possible unless you already have a full-time job (no evenings and weekends workers).
Gevulot is a generic decentralized prover network designed for deploying arbitrary provers as on-chain programs while maintaining performance similar to centralized provers. The vision of Gevulot is to make the creation of performant zk-based systems, such as validity rollups, as easy as deploying smart contracts.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Solutions Architect to work closely with our Gevulot partners. Your goal in this position would be to make it more convenient for them to start and keep using the Gevulot network. We are looking for a person who has a wide range of expertise in different technologies/sectors to easily discover, propose, and execute the best solutions. You are comfortable working in CLI and have an excellent routine in thoroughly documenting solutions and instructions.
Requirements:
2+ years of experience in a Solutions Architect role or similar
Daily use of the wide range of command line tools, container technologies, Go/Rust build systems.
Ability to quickly learn complex systems
Ability to proactively identify issues and find and execute possible solutions
Fluent and active communication skills in English
Customer-facing attitude, you want to make life of others easier
Key Responsibilities:
Work closely with our partners to help them use Gevulot better & easier
Create CLI tools for Gevulot partners and clients to enhance the developer experience
Document instructions and use cases
Understand Gevulot infrastructure in detail to ideate and execute areas of improvement for client-facing segments
What We Offer:
Fully remote position
Competitive salary
Significant responsibility from day 1
Fast growth environment with opportunities for professional development
Opportunity to work on the cutting edge of Zero Knowledge infrastructure
Opportunity to gain experience in the blockchain industry and development without prior industry experience
Senior Golang Engineer All In Bits San Francisco, United States / Remote (United States) $180,000 to $200,000 a year
July 2023
9 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About the Role:
We are seeking Golang Engineers who are passionate about developing cutting-edge technology. In this role, you will be tasked with creating and implementing features such as Golang interpreters, libraries, developer tools, and utilities to power the Gnolang language. This is an opportunity to contribute to a groundbreaking platform from its inception and help shape the future of smart contracts in the blockchain industry.
Basic Qualifications
Exceptional proficiency in Golang, with a minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience.
Proven experience with open-source projects.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work autonomously on complex problems.
This role will be based in the United States.
Nice-to-Have
Interest in or knowledge of computer science fundamentals, such as network, storage, OS, data structures, transpilers/compilers.
Familiarity with concepts such as proof-of-stake, consensus algorithms, decentralized exchanges, public-key cryptography, and DeFi/Blockchain projects.
Experience with Solidity and a solid understanding of Solidity/Ethereum concepts.
Experience working with distributed teams and building distributed systems.
$179,000 - $200,000 a year
Please note that the salary range provided is for reference purposes only. During the interview, we will evaluate each candidate's experience and skills and determine an appropriate salary offer. We are committed to practicing salary transparency and equity, offering competitive compensation packages based on a candidate's qualifications and experience. Our dedication to ensuring that our employees are compensated fairly for their contributions demonstrates our belief in creating a fair and equitable workplace.
About Us:
All in Bits (AiB) aims to create a more transparent and accountable world through open-source software that enables permissionless innovation and borderless transactions. Our technology empowers builders to launch sovereign blockchains and decentralized applications (dApps) that are secure, scalable, and interoperable.
AiB is a longstanding contributor to the Cosmos ecosystem. In 2014, our CEO, Jae Kwon, was the first to introduce a solution to the Proof-of-Stake distributed consensus problem, building the core infrastructure that powers Cosmos today including Tendermint Core and Cosmos SDK. From creating and funding to engineering and marketing, we prioritize simplistic and minimalistic approaches to building technological solutions that endure.
AiB is committed to upholding core Cosmos values of transparency, accountability, and decentralization. That’s why we support the creation of the Decentralists DAO for the Cosmos Hub to move all operations on-chain, starting with engineering. By establishing the DAO registered team, we aim to advance core components of the Cosmos tech stack and encourage open dialogue, decision-making, and innovation.
How we work:
We focus on talent rather than location to hire the very best person for every role. Open communication is vital, and we use the best tools to collaborate efficiently. Everyone has the autonomy to create their best work, which we reward with unlimited growth potential. AiB is remote-first, and to support your working life, we offer carefully considered benefits and hold regular team and company-wide meetings to encourage collaboration and interaction between teams.
You have the flexibility to work the hours best suited to your lifestyle; as long as you deliver consistent quality work, the sky's the limit! You will be required to be available from 8 am - 10 am PST some days when we bring our people together to contribute to our Town Hall sessions. We value diversity, inclusivity, honesty, and accountability. AiB is a place where talent thrives and you'll have the opportunity to carve out an exciting career trajectory best suited to your unique skills and interests.
Direct applications only. Ignite does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies in response to Ignite website or social media posts. Ignite will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited resumes. Ignite explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ignite.
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