About Shardeum:
Shardeum is building a layer 1, EVM-based, linearly scalable, smart contract platform that provides low gas fees forever while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum aims to be a chain capable of onboarding over a billion people to the crypto revolution, while also democratizing accessibility to decentralization.
Shardeum’s mission is supported by prominent Venture Capitalists in the blockchain space, and we are on track to become one of the most widely used and well known smart contract platforms in blockchain history.
We encourage you to browse our website, Whitepaper, Discord and YouTube channel to learn more about the project. You can even try downloading our validator software and joining our Testnet
.
We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Your talent and potential is what matters most to us. Shardeum is committed to creating an inclusive cultur
e.
About The Ro
le: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 netwo
rk.We are in search of a 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 wor
ld.
What You'll Be Do
- ing:Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic road
- mapsManage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical exper
- tiseMentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding stand
- ardsContributing to the architecture and implementation of complex software components in Nod
- e.jsEnd-to-end ownership of critical software compon
- entsDesigning and developing innovative new consensus and protocol soft
- wareEnsuring performance optimization, and making scalability / reliability improvements to the soft
- wareTesting, reviewing and suggesting improvements to the soft
- wareResolving issues, debugging errors and fixing code to improve the reliability and security of the soft
- wareThe tech stack you will be using is: Node.js, TypeScript, SQLite, Postgres, React and Vu
- e.jsThe development environment will be: Linux, Git, AWS, Docker and VS
Code
What We're Looking
- For:You know what high quality code look like and know how to foster an environment that creat
- es itFluency with algorithms and data struc
- turesAbility to quickly learn new languages and technol
- ogiesAbility to write clean yet efficient
- codeThe Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design, while not knowing all the de
- tailsSelf motivated to set priorities and methodically make progress towards the
- goalsThe ability to communicate effectively and convey your ideas when discussing technical topics with team me
- mbersBachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related
field
We'd Love If You
- Have:Experience with concurrency, parallelism and distributed s
- ystemsFamiliarity with the Shardeum / Shardus open source
- reposExperience with consensus protocols and other block
- chainsExperience with Node.js and TypeScript, or languages like C, C++, Rust
- or GoExperience writing a smart contract on a bloc
- kchainExperience running a node in a blockchain n
- etworkKnowledge of crypto
- graphyExperience with networks and operating s
- ystemsContributed to open source pr
- ojectsWritten articles or created videos on technical topics, especially related to bloc
- kchainRead the Bitcoin and Ethereum white
papers
We are building the infrastructure for Web 3.0. It's going to be a rollercoaster ride but promises to
be fun!
