Principal Software Engineer

About The Role:

The Software Engineering team at Shardeum is responsible for delivering the Shardeum Mainnet, and developing the smart contract platform, the consensus layer and the protocol layer. We focus on building scalable, performant, secure and reliable software that can be downloaded by thousands of node operators to actualize the Shardeum network.

We are in search of highly talented, innovative Principal Blockchain Engineer to join our team. If you enjoy solving complex computer science problems, are passionate about what you work on, are a perfectionist who wants to build things the right way, and are persistent about finishing what you started, then you’re the kind of person we are looking for. You will be working with equally talented and innovative individuals with the goal of building incredible software with the potential to change the world.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• 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:

• You know what high quality code look like and know how to foster an environment that creates it
• 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
• Contributed to open source projects
• Written articles or created videos on technical topics, especially related to blockchain
• Read the Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepapers