Senior Rust Engineer

A fast-growing company building a cutting-edge distributed ledger R&D and developing and optimizing self-sovereign and privacy-preserving technologies is looking for a Senior Rust Engineer. The engineer will be applying novel research to create high-quality open-source technology and solve outstanding problems in the blockchain space. The company is determined to bring to the world the advantages of financial sovereignty and privacy. This is an amazing opportunity for developers to build a lucrative career and work on innovative solutions. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Create, extend, and maintain protocols that are decentralized, permissionless, and censorship-resistant
• Ensure the Rust implementation of distributed ledger technology
• Contribute to the P2P layer, consensus algorithms, smart contract systems, and proof-of-stake incentive mechanisms
• Knowledge of privacy-enhancing cryptographic components and on-chain governance procedures
• Collaborating with other team members, create technical specifications for distributed ledger protocols or protocol improvements
• Analyze the algorithmic complexity, incentive compatibility, and difficulties of implementation of potential new protocols
• Implement protocols in Rust code that is both performant and well-abstracted
• Document and test protocols and protocol updates thoroughly
• Benchmark implementations and make changes to the high-level design as well as the low-level details to improve performance while maintaining semantic correctness
• Conduct code reviews in collaboration with other team members to ensure that the codebase maintains a high level of quality

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3-5+ years of experience working as a software engineer
• Prior experience with systems programming in Rust
• Extensive experience with Rust abstractions, memory management, and concurrency
• Strong curiosity around open-source technology and DLT research
• Must be proactive and organized
• Prior experience with large scale distributed systems, network, and systems engineering is nice to have
• Familiarity with database design and optimization is desirable
• Nice to have prior experience in blockchain technology and implementing cryptography