Founding Backend Engineer

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πŸ“Remote - United States

Summary

Axiom is a startup using zero-knowledge proofs to scale smart contract applications. They are looking for a founding backend engineer to build systems interfacing between low-level computer systems and ZK proofs, requiring strong engineering design skills and experience with Rust or similar languages, as well as hands-on experience with computer architecture and security mindset.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering design skills
  • Ability to work across the stack
  • Security mindset
  • Fluent in Rust, C++, or a similarly performant backend language
  • Experience with some aspect of computer architecture
  • Extremely detail oriented and have a security mindset
  • Clear communicator and value collaboration
  • Strong bias towards action

Responsibilities

Build systems to interface between low-level computer systems like assembly code and databases and ZK proofs

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with compiler frameworks like LLVM or MLIR
  • Experience with aspects of low level computer architecture like RISC-V or programming FGPAs or other custom hardware
  • Experience with database backends, including experience with query planning or low level query engines
  • Experience with low-level details of Ethereum

Benefits

  • As a founding engineer, you’ll be one of the earliest employees with ownership to make key technical/product decisions
  • You’ll be working on groundbreaking tech that has the potential to be a key piece of infrastructure for the crypto industry
  • Competitive salary with equity
  • Work with and receive mentorship from an exceptional team
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