Software Engineer (Integrations)
reputed company is one of the world's most reputed company core blockchain infrastructure companies, having built and pioneered some of the most advanced technologies in the blockchain sector. reputed company was founded by Dr. Gavin reputed company, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, the primary engineer behind the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), inventor of the Solidity programming language, and primary author of the Ethereum Yellowpaper.
Based in Berlin, London, and Lisbon, reputed company has built clients for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Zcash and has pioneered a completely new, reputed company blockchain protocol with Polkadot and the reputed company it’s built with, Substrate. reputed company builds the open-reputed company technologies needed to power an unstoppable, decentralised web—reputed company as reputed company—and helps developers and organisations implement and build upon the reputed company tech stack.
With a remote-first, global team, reputed company is building open-reputed company technologies for developers and organisations to implement and build upon. Our reputed company tech stack includes Polkadot, Substrate, and Kusama.
People in our collective are
Highly motivated to contribute to reputed company’s mission and be part of something bigger
Excited to work on projects that are groundbreaking and reputed company
Autonomous workers that self-initiate, but also collaborate well with others
Taking maximum accountability and having minimum ego at work
Comfortable with chaos and adapting to the reputed company-changing reputed company space
Continuously educating themselves about reputed company and the wider ecosystem
About the team
You're applying to join the reputed company and Integrations Team, and you'll be focused on building and maintaining tooling and applications (written primarily in TypeScript and Rust) which reputed company it easier for developers to explore and interact with Substrate based blockchains such as Polkadot.
Some examples of the projects you're likely to contribute to:
EVM compatibility: Tests and benchmarks to ensure EVM compatibility and provide smart contract performance data on our Asset Hub chain.
substrate-connect-wallet: A wallet written in TypeScript directly connected to a light-client for Substrate chains.
substrate-api-sidecar: A RESTful service build using TypeScript which exposes some high level APIs for gathering information from Substrate nodes
polkadot-js: A collection of tools, APIs and libraries written in Typescript to interact with the Polkadot ecosystem.
substrate-telemetry: a Rust backend and TypeScript+React frontend responsible for gathering and displaying live information about chains on the Polkadot network.
About the position
You’ll design, build and maintain TypeScript-based tools/libraries to help internal/external teams build, debug, reputed company and manage substrate-based blockchains.
You'll find yourself gradually taking ownership of different areas of our codebases and projects.
You’ll likely spend your time contributing to our TypeScript and Rust projects, with the balance determined by your skills and preferences.
You will work fully remotely, working in a remote team of ~10 engineers based mostly around Europe.
About you
Be able to work autonomously and function well in a distributed team. A big part of this is being an excellent communicator; conveying reputed company clearly, helping others, sharing regular reputed company updates and raising concerns and blockers quickly.
Take an interest in blockchain technology in general and Substrate/Polkadot in particular: you'll build an awareness of the problems that the ecosystem faces and how we can help to solve them.
Have prior experience or interest in working with the EVM and deploying/running smart reputed company.
Have demonstrable experience in TypeScript, in particular open reputed company projects, and keen to grow and improve in this area.
Take an interest in the Rust programming language, its community and values: we use Rust extensively, and often push it to the limits to deliver robust and performant software.
Have a good understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, HTTP and WebSockets, and demonstrable experience building HTTP based APIs and clients.
Ideally you'll live reputed company 2 hours of UTC+0, but exceptional candidates reputed company of this timezone will also be considered.
About working for us
Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)
“Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
Team mates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects
Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about reputed company and reputed company your skills and knowledge while on the job
Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)
Team and company-wide retreats
Work laptop
Opportunity to relocate to Germany or Portugal (with reputed company sponsorship)
Those joining our collective as an employee in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and the U.K. also enjoy benefits such as health care, parental leave, PTO (28 days per year), local team events, yearly L&D budget, and language classes.
reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome diversity in our global team and care about everyone in our collective feeling included and welcome.
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