Staff Software Engineer, Protocol Node

What You'll Be Doing:

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team
• Own major blockchain protocol and client features 
• Lead the design and implementation of Rust components end to end
• Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap
• Facilitate cross-functional work within the organization
• Facilitate discussions and debates, consolidating  different perspectives to drive decisions to execution
• Anticipate risks and uncertainties and plan mitigations for them.
• Directly impact the team by reducing complexity of architectures, implementations, and processes.
• Set the right tempo for you and the team to deliver large initiatives on time.
• End-to-end ownership of your work (design, implementation, documentation, maintenance)
• Performance tuning and optimizations

What We're Looking For:

• Ability to quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts; we expect you to obtain a very good understanding of the blockchain protocol
• An effective  communicator and ability to remain calm under pressure and when juggling multiple priorities
• Being comfortable with diving in multiple parts of a technology stack and quickly navigate through it
• Fluency with algorithms and data structures
• Excellent coding skills
• Ability to go from design to implementation fast
• Your work is done carefully with a great attention to detail
• Experience with Rust or alternatively but less preferred C++ or Go
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field is a must