About the company
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) running on the NEAR Protocol, and one of the most exciting Ethereum scaling solutions in the ecosystem. The Aurora environment consists of the Aurora Engine, a high performance EVM—Ethereum Virtual Machine—and the Rainbow Bridge, facilitating trustless transfer of ETH and ERC-20 tokens between Ethereum and Aurora, within a great user experience. Aurora exists and is operated as an independent, self-funded initiative, but will continue to leverage the shared team DNA and continually evolving technology of the NEAR Protocol.
Job Summary
Requirements
📍 Senior Rust Expertise 📍 Software design, architecture and engineering skills 📍Experience with message based and event sourced architectures 📍Proven track record of smart contract development 📍Previous experience in the blockchain industry, Layer 1 📍Extreme ownership mentality - ability to take extreme ownership and full responsibility of tasks and projects 📍Professionalism and quality in work ethic 📍Desire to support and improve existing code
Nice to have
📍 Previous experience with the NEAR ecosystem, e.g. nearcore codebase 📍Experience developing and auditing security-sensitive code- Familiarity with EVM / web3 ecosystem
Responsibilities
📍 Maintain and improve services written in Rust which are part of the business-critical infrastructure 📍 Research and prototype application of cutting edge blockchain 📍 Review and provide feedback on technical architecture across the company 📍Participate in technical governance of OSS projects around NEAR ecosystem 📍Communication and collaboration with a fully distributed team 📍Collaborate with Ethereum and be active in the Ethereum engineering forums
