Principal Software Engineer, Blockchain

Summary

Join our team as a Principal Blockchain Engineer and contribute to building the Shardeum Mainnet, developing the smart contract platform, consensus layer, and protocol layer. As a highly talented engineer, you will work with innovative individuals to create incredible software that can change the world.

Requirements

• You know what high quality code look like and know how to foster an environment that creates it
• Fluency with algorithms and data structures
• Ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Ability to write clean yet efficient code
• The Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design, while not knowing all the details
• Self motivated to set priorities and methodically make progress towards the goals
• The ability to communicate effectively and convey your ideas when discussing technical topics with team members
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

Responsibilities

• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Contributing to the architecture and implementation of complex software components in Node.js
• End-to-end ownership of critical software components
• Designing and developing innovative new consensus and protocol software
• Ensuring performance optimization, and making scalability / reliability improvements to the software
• Testing, reviewing and suggesting improvements to the software
• Resolving issues, debugging errors and fixing code to improve the reliability and security of the software

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
• Familiarity with the Shardeum / Shardus open source repos
• Experience with consensus protocols and other blockchains
• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript, or languages like C, C++, Rust or Go
• Experience writing a smart contract on a blockchain
• Experience running a node in a blockchain network
• Knowledge of cryptography
• Experience with networks and operating systems
• Contributed to open source projects
• Written articles or created videos on technical topics, especially related to blockchain
• Read the Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepapers