Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Platform Engineer and contribute to the development of Hedera's core algorithms and data storage, working closely with the custom database designed for extreme performance.

Requirements

• 5 years total and 4 years current experience with Java
• Superior ability to create, analyze, and improve algorithms
• In-depth experience with Java concurrency
• In-depth experience with data structures
• Experience with Java memory management
• Experience with data IO
• Strong problem-solving and reasoning skills
• Strong communication skills
• Collaborative mindset
• Adaptability
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement

Responsibilities

• Developing, reviewing, and testing algorithms
• Feature design, implementation, testing, and documentation
• Designing and implementing in-memory and on-disk data structures
• Analyzing and improving data flow and back pressure mechanisms
• Identifying and eliminating bottlenecks
• Innovating, designing, implementing, and testing new approaches to improve speed and scalability

Preferred Qualifications

• Blockchain technology or DLT
• Distributed systems
• NetworkingTask-based architecture
• Discrete mathematics
• Merkle Trees
• Experience building a database from scratch
• On-disk data structures
• Java garbage collectors (ZGC, Shenandoah, etc.)
• Performance optimization
• JMH / Custom profilers