This founding engineering role is with one of our clients who is building an off-chain compute policy engine for the crypto industry.

As a founding team member, you will make strategic decisions, shape software architecture, and contribute to the design, implementation, and performance of the distributed system that underlies the protocol.

In order to do this work effectively, you will need to:

Use your distributed systems engineering knowledge to design and implement back-end services, prototypes, and tools
Propose, write, and explain technical designs, approaches, and solutions
Engage in the team’s design and code reviews, stand-ups, and agile development processes
Constantly learn new concepts, ideas, and frameworks from your peers
Stay updated on the latest methodologies and technologies in distributed node infrastructure to ensure that our product remain at the forefront of the industry

Requirements:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent industry experience
Experience building production-grade services (5+ years of experience with distributed systems strongly preferred)
Proficiency in Golang
Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Experience building, owning, and operating high-scale distributed systems across the full software lifecycle

Preference will be given to candidates who have. . .

An understanding of how the EVM works
Experience with some of the key technologies we use across the blockchain, cryptography, and distributed systems domains including Solidity and other smart contract languages, signature schemes, hash functions, multi-threaded and parallel computing
Deep problem-solving skills and ability to resolve ambiguous requirements

If this piques your interest, please provide a quick answer to the audio questions (the founding team will review all answers) and we'll get you into the process!

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Founding Engineer - Distributed Systems

New York / RemoteUp to $200K/year plus equity and tokensfull-time