Software Engineer

Summary

Join Parity, a leading core blockchain infrastructure company, and become a key member of the Parachains Core team. You will design, implement, and maintain cutting-edge protocols for the Polkadot blockchain, focusing on security, scalability, and adoption. This role involves contributing to performance improvements, debugging complex issues in distributed systems, and building robust test suites. You'll work fully remotely with a team of engineers based in Europe. Parity offers competitive remuneration, a flexible remote-first environment, and opportunities for professional development within the Web3 ecosystem.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Hands on experience with implementing and maintaining distributed systems
• Hands on experience with performance engineering and optimizations
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices
• Collaborate with others in an open-source culture, open to feedback with a critical mindset
• Ability to solve complex problems over longer periods of time
• Ownership and accountability for your work in the long term
• Drive projects to completion incrementally by establishing clear milestones

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cutting-edge protocols that are foundational to the security, scalability and adoption of Polkadot
• Contribute to projects focused on improving performance (latency, single shard performance) or lowering the entry barrier to the Polkadot ecosystem
• Debug and root cause complex issues in distributed systems (scalability, performance regressions and generally bugs that surface at scale)
• Build test suites that ensure the functionality and performance of multiple components working together in a “microservice like” architecture

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)
• ���Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
• Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job
• Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)
• Team and company-wide retreats
• Work laptop
• Healthcare
• Parental leave
• PTO (28 days per year)
• Local team events