Staff Software Engineer, Blockchain Core

What You'll Be Doing:

• Collaboration with a fully distributed team around the world.
• Architecture and implementation of complex blockchain components in Rust.
• End-to-end ownership of critical blockchain components.
• Design/proposal of new blockchain protocol changes.
• Performance optimizations and scalability/reliability improvements of Blockchain.
• Open source community contribution by collaborating with external contributors on our codebase and participating in community events.
• Performance tuning and optimizations.
• Partnering with your engineering manager and driving the team’s technical roadmap.
• Facilitating cross-functional work within the organization.
• Facilitating technical discussions, consolidating  different perspectives to drive goals to execution.
• Auditing and resolving critical problems across blockchain infrastructure to provide the best user experience.
• Mentoring and supporting junior engineers

What We're Looking For:

• Ability to 
  
  • Navigate through ambiguity and clarifying unknowns 
  • Quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts; we expect you to obtain a very good understanding of the blockchain protocol
  • Write clean yet efficient code.
  • Make trade off decisions for ruthless prioritization
  • Lay out priorities and methodically make progress towards the goal.
• Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
• Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design while not knowing all the details.
• Effective communication skills to convey your ideas and drive technical discussions with other engineers.
• Being comfortable with diving in multiple parts of a technology stack and quickly navigate through it
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism
• Experience debugging complex concurrent systems
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must