Remote Sr. Decentralized Systems Engineer - Blockchain

Summary

Company BloKchain Talent is hiring a Sr. Decentralized Systems Engineer for their client, an innovative company in the healthcare sector that is disrupting the industry by designing and building decentralized applications and a fully decentralized protocol for health insurance using blockchain technology. The candidate should have extensive experience in distributed systems and blockchain, with hands-on experience architecting and developing on existing blockchain smart contract platforms.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience developing highly reliable, scalable services, incorporating REST and microservices patterns
• Demonstrable, in-depth knowledge and experience with at least one modern language such as Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java, C++
• Strong comprehension of computer science fundamentals, object-oriented design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Code that demonstrates your ability to build or architect distributed systems and/or blockchain code
• Comfortable working in a devops/CI environment

Responsibilities

• Participate in design and implementation of our fully decentralized protocol for health insurance. This includes developing, testing and deploying the backend and smart contracts needed to do so
• Help architect and implement our token-based incentive model which introduces a new micro-economy for aligning patients, providers and drives towards decentralization
• Design and develop any APIs and/or SDKs required to support these services
• Own monitoring, alarming, analytics, and reporting on all services you build, ensuring high performance and responsiveness
• Coach and mentor other members of the development team, growing the collective knowledge and expertise of the group

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable strong interest in blockchain, token models and decentralisation and a desire to contribute to thought leadership in the company
• The ability to articulate the pros/cons of current blockchain implementations beyond Ethereum
• Hands-on experience creating smart contracts, or building on blockchain
• Interest and some understanding of second layer security solutions such as sMPC, zero-knowledge, etc

Benefits

• Equity
• Tokens