About the company
Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights. It develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. The company has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, and Eden Games. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 200 investments in NFT-related companies and decentralized projects that are contributing to building the open metaverse, including Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on Twitter or Facebook.
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
đź“ŤOwn critical components of a Layer 1 in production Fix, refine, and extend the core node software (consensus, execution, networking, storage). đź“ŤDesign, implement, and ship protocol upgrades via coordinated releases and hard/soft forks. đź“ŤOptimize end-to-end performance by improving throughput, latency, and proposer/validator efficiency under realistic workloads (DeFi, gaming, consumer). đź“ŤProfile p2p stack, mempool, block building, and state access; remove hotspots and reduce variance. đź“ŤDeep-dive EVM and Solidity execution paths, opcode semantics, precompiles, and gas accounting. đź“ŤImprove compatibility with major tooling đź“ŤBuild upgrades and tools for nodes, validators, and infrastructure
Requirements:
đź“ŤHands-on experience with Layer 1 clients or core protocol work đź“ŤContributed to Ethereum clients (Geth, Erigon, Nethermind), Solana (Agave), Cosmos SDK/CometBFT, Optimism/OP-Stack, Arbitrum, Polygon, or similar. đź“ŤStrong systems programming skills in one or more: Go, Rust, or C++. đź“ŤDeep understanding of Consensus protocols, validator pipelines, proposer/builder interfaces, finality. đź“ŤProven experience in Mempool design, transaction pricing/priority, and DoS/spam resistance. đź“ŤA focus on precision, performance, and protocol correctness; bias to measure, then optimize. đź“ŤExcellent written communication: specs, RFCs, design docs, and crisp PRs.
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