Founding Blockchain Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will work closely with senior technical leadership to define priorities, ship reliable systems, and maintain production-grade blockchain infrastructure. You will optimize services for speed, scale, security, and robustness, write well-tested code, perform code reviews, and own projects end-to-end. You will diagnose and resolve complex concurrency and networking issues, contribute to security-focused designs, and operate 24/7 real-time systems that protect Web3 users.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- At least 3 years of relevant work experience
- Proficiency in Go and/or JavaScript and TypeScript
- Experience with lower-level blockchain technology including consensus, networking, MEV, and security
- Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing
- Knowledge of security-focused design and security engineering principles
- Experience with unit testing, code review, and continuous integration
- Preferred: Solidity development and building decentralized applications
- Preferred: Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
- Preferred: Experience acting as a technical lead and mentoring others
- Preferred: Basic developer operations knowledge and software development life cycle
Responsibilities
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with senior leadership
- Optimize service infrastructure for speed, scale, security, and robustness
- Write high-quality, unit-tested code and participate in code reviews
- Own projects end-to-end and be accountable for delivery
- Operate and maintain 24/7 real-time systems focused on security
- Design and implement security-focused system architecture
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership and guidance
- Collaborate on deployment pipelines and continuous integration
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible hours
- Work-from-home policy
- Three weeks vacation plus year-end shutdown (Dec 24 - Jan 1)
- Quarterly company in-person meetups with expenses paid