What You'll Be Doing:

📍Collaborating with a fully distributed team around the world 📍Contributing to the architecture and implementation of complex software components in Node.js 📍End-to-end ownership of critical software components 📍Designing and developing innovative new consensus and protocol software 📍Ensuring performance optimization, and making scalability / reliability improvements to the software 📍Testing, reviewing and suggesting improvements to the software 📍Resolving issues, debugging errors and fixing code to improve the reliability and security of the software 📍The tech stack you will be using is: Node.js, TypeScript, SQLite, Postgres, React and Vue.js 📍The development environment will be: Linux, Git, AWS, Docker and VSCode

What We're Looking For:

📍Fluency with algorithms and data structures 📍Ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies 📍Ability to write clean yet efficient code 📍The Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design, while not knowing all the details 📍Self motivated to set priorities and methodically make progress towards the goals 📍The ability to communicate effectively and convey your ideas when discussing technical topics with team members 📍Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

We'd Love If You Have:

📍Experience with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems 📍Familiarity with the Shardeum / Shardus open source repos 📍Experience with consensus protocols and other blockchains 📍Experience with Node.js and TypeScript, or languages like C, C++, Rust or Go 📍Experience writing a smart contract on a blockchain 📍Experience running a node in a blockchain network 📍Knowledge of cryptography 📍Experience with networks and operating systems 📍Graduated with high academic scores or with honors 📍Won or placed in a hackathon(s) 📍Ranked highly on competitive coding sites 📍Contributed to open source projects 📍Written articles or created videos on technical topics, especially related to blockchain 📍Read the Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepapers 📍Done something extraordinary

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:

📍Depending on calendar availability, from the first stage to the final stage, we do our best to keep the entire process to under two weeks. Our interviews take place via video calls and typically consists of the following stages:

📍Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes) 📍Meet with the Hiring Manager (1 hour) 📍Technical Tests (1-3 x 1-2 hours) 📍Culture & Values Interview (1 hour)