About the company
At R3 we’re planning to change the world. Joining us means working at the cutting edge of permissioned blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) whilst it transforms the future of business. Corda is a DLT platform conceived at the outset for running complex workflows between businesses absent centralized points of control. Designed for the needs of financial markets infrastructures, it is trusted by banks, stock exchanges, insurance companies, payments companies, and others to deliver reliable, scalable, and performant decentralized systems.
Job Summary
Responsibilties
đź“ŤYou will design, implement and test Solana on-chain programs, written in Rust
đź“ŤBring Solana on-chain knowledge, best practices, experience and idiomatic thinking to bear on the architecture, design and implementation of the Corda / Solana integration
đź“ŤLeverage the Solana existing ecosystem and community to accelerate implementation and delivery
đź“ŤYou will contribute to the technical direction of Solana engineering at R3
đź“ŤYou will mentor and assist other engineers, enabling them to understand your approach to understanding and solving problems, and help them upskill and thrive in the Solana on-chain ecosystem
📍You will learn, understand and develop Corda, R3’s private DLT product
đź“ŤYou will use developed and comprehensive judgment to make decisions of complexity
đź“ŤMaintaining a security focussed adversarial mindset during design and development, working with our internal security team and security audit vendors
đź“ŤCollaborate with fellow engineers within the team and organisation by developing technical plans and contributing to technical architecture
đź“ŤYou will hone your business analysis skills to interact with the product management team to marry technical delivery and product requirements
đź“ŤYou will develop customer focus skills to anticipate internal/external customer requests
Required Skills
đź“ŤIn-depth knowledge of the Solana eco system, Solana clients &programs, pain points and anti-patterns
đź“ŤExpertise in Rust programming language
đź“ŤStrong understanding of Solana Account Model, Program Derived đź“ŤAddresses and Cross Program Invocation
đź“ŤExperience with Anchor
đź“ŤIn-depth knowledge of Solana RPC clients
đź“ŤUnderstanding of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and distributed systems
đź“ŤKnowledge of cryptographic concepts (public/private keys, digital signatures, hashing)
đź“ŤExperience in software engineering roles
đź“ŤExcellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities
đź“ŤExperience collaborating effectively in a cross-disciplinary team setup interacting directly with many parts of the organisation
đź“ŤA positive, cheerful, can-do attitude where obstacles are just problems yet to be solved
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