We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions.
- Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software.
- Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages.
- A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals.
- Deep understanding of the theory and implementation of database trees on real file systems.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Worked with and mentored junior engineers.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be:
- Improve the IAVL codebase by committing DRY, well tested code.
- Work with the Cosmos-SDK team to keep the IAVL tree and its proofs well integrated.
- Optimize our implementation of the IAVL tree and its proofs.
- Research, design, and implement improvements to the IAVL tree, the proofs, and related protocols.
- Help formalize the specification of the IAVL tree and proofs and ensure the implementation adheres to the spec.
- Develop simulations for testing the behaviour of the IAVL tree under various loads and read/write strategies.
- Develop alternatives to the IAVL tree like the Ethereum Patricia Trie that adhere to the same interfaces.
- Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team.
- Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to build the future of the internet.
- An exciting role building open source software.
- Flexible work schedule.
- At least 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- Very competitive salary, including equity.
About our application process:
Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.
If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.
If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.
Senior Software Engineer, SDK Tendermint Toronto, Canada / San Francisco, United States / Berlin, Germany $100,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
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Job Description
We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
- Significant experience writing Golang.
- Built an open source framework for software development.
- Significant open source software contributions.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Worked with and mentored junior engineers.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be:
- Improve the SDK codebase by committing DRY, well tested code.
- Work with the SDK team to triage tickets and move the project forward.
- Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
- Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team.
- Help with developer adoption by supporting projects using the SDK.
- Participate in developer discussion forums and work to improve the usability based on user feedback.
- Promote the SDK by publishing blog posts and guides.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to build the future of the internet.
- An exciting role building open source software.
- Flexible work schedule.
- At least 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- Very competitive salary, including equity.
About our application process:
Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.
If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.
If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.
WHO YOU ARE:
- At least 5 years of programming experience.
- Significant experience with Golang.
- Extensive understanding of the Ethereum state machine, including the EVM, transaction structures, state mechanics, etc.
- Experience with the go-ethereum or parity codebase.
- Expertise in blockchain technologies.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Worked with and mentored junior engineers.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
WHERE YOU ARE:
- Berlin
- San Francisco
- Toronto
ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop, maintain, and extend Ethermint - the EVM implementation on Tendermint Core
- Develop Plasma-style sidechains for Ethereum
- Develop Cosmos-Ethereum peg zones
- Contribute to go-ethereum to improve its modularity and usability as a library
- Help formalize the specification of Ethermint and ensure the implementation adheres to the spec.
- Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team.
- Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
WHAT WE OFFER:
- The opportunity to build the future of the internet.
- An exciting role building open source software.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Travel stipend for conferences and in person collaboration.
- At least 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- Very competitive salary, including equity.
ABOUT OUR APPLICATION PROCESS:
Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.
If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.
If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Tendermint San Francisco, United States / Berlin, Germany / Toronto $100,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions.
- Written structured, high-quality programs and scripts for automation.
- Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages.
- Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software and infrastructure tools like Elastic stack, InfluxDB stack, DataDog, PagerDuty, or VictorOps.
- Built solutions with a broad set of technologies in and around cloud solutions (AWS EC2, ECS, Route53, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, - Google Container Engine, Kubernetes or Docker Swarm).
- Implemented continuous deployment before (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Experience with SDLC tools (Git, GitHub, Atlassian Stash/Bitbucket, GitLab, JIRA).
- Experience with QA/SIT tools (Selenium).
- Experience in Linux System administration including package management, network management, and security management.
- Familiarity with open source P2P networking protocols.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be:
- Help scale software systems with automation, in an effort to improve reliability, velocity, and simplicity.
- Create, maintain, and improve the tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Build and maintain tooling for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining clusters of Tendermint nodes on our testnets and mainnets.
- Build and maintain tooling to help shorten feedback cycles within teams and projects.
- Plan, build, and maintain public facing services in association with business goals.
- Build tools to measure and monitor availability, latency and overall system health.
Software Engineer Backend Kraken Berlin, Germany / Remote $90,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
This role is fully remote and can be based anywhere.
Our Engineering team is having a blast while delivering the most sophisticated crypto-trading platform out there. Help us continue to define and lead the industry.
Responsibilities
Design and implementation of Micro-services in Rust
Port legacy Micro-services to Rust
Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
Implementation of security and data protection systems
Write highly scalable, high volume services
Create optimized database schemas
Requirements
Expertise writing network services in Rust, or other languages such as C, C++ or Go and a willingness to learn Rust.
Experience using a Linux server environment
Ability to independently debug problems involving the network and operating system
A strong candidate will also
Be familiar with deployment using Docker
Have experience with SQL and Redis
Be proficient with HTTPS and Websockets
Be passionate about secure, reliable and fast software