Senior Blockchain Systems Engineer

Summary

Join the Nimbus team as a founding member, working closely with Nomos to provide feedback on specifications and contribute to early architectural design. Develop a deep understanding of Nimbus and Nomos architectures. Consume Nomos specifications and provide feedback. Collaborate with the Nimbus team to address complex challenges in the specifications. Participate in shaping the initial architecture and design principles of Nimbus-Nomos, aligning them with decentralization, privacy, and censorship-resistance goals. This role involves analyzing specifications and contributing to early design decisions. The position may evolve to include architectural input beyond specification review.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of blockchain technology and its underlying principles
• Senior-level experience in the blockchain industry (several years), with a proven background in technical systems analysis and design
• Technical background (Software Engineer or similar) and expertise in documentation, specification review, and architectural prototyping
• You are proactive and communicative - making things happen comes easily to you
• Commitment to privacy-focused, decentralised protocols and applications
• Ability to work in early-stage, undefined environments where foundational contributions are critical

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of Nimbus and Nomos, including their architectures and designs
• Consume specifications from Nomos and provide feedback where necessary
• Collaborate with the Nimbus team to address complex, non-incremental challenges in the specifications, rather than relying on scoping smaller tasks to learn the codebase
• Participate in shaping the initial architecture and design principles of Nimbus-Nomos, aligning them with decentralisation, privacy, and censorship-resistance goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an open-source organisation
• You've used Nimbus Client or have worked in a privacy-focused project/organisation

Benefits

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto