Position:Software Engineer (Blockchain)
Duration: Full Time Permanent

As a member of our Software Engineering Group welook first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving businessproblems through innovation & engineering practices. You will be requiredto apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the softwaredevelopment lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your manystakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace aculture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning.You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—onethat encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in thebest interests of our customers globally.

The blockchain engineering team is looking for apassionate and experienced software engineer(s) to join its team of expertengineers to build out robust, enterprise level, performant, and secureapplications on distributed, decentralized platforms. There are multiple rolesavailable varying from full-stack and distributed systems engineers, toperformance engineers, to applied cryptography engineers. Highly motivatedpersons will have demonstrated experience in the area of complex,multi-disciplinary, and geographically dispersed development.

The ideal candidate will have strong oral andwritten communication skills and organizational skills. Ideal candidate willhave extensive experience in software development and related infrastructureprojects in a rapidly changing environment, be able to tolerate ambiguity inthis fast-moving field, and demonstrate problem solving, leadership, creativityand innovation.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths andcapabilities, including:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Gather requirements, provide analysis, assess alternatives and code libraries, and give well-thought recommendations.
• Collaborate with various line of business technology teams to design and build robust and performant blockchain-based solutions.
• Peer-to-peer distributed system design and implementation involving multiple technology stacks.
• Research, strategize and educate on methodology and best practices for blockchain design, implementation, and deployment.
• Design, implement, and monitor one or more line of business applications.
• Implement rigorous and thorough testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure.
• Design and implement blockchain supporting tools and utilities (e.g., CLI client, tools for exploring the blockchain, monitoring, benchmarking or debugging tools)
• Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of  blockchain infrastructure
• Design and verify cryptographic protocols deployed on the blockchain
• Design blockchain solutions, such that it can support benchmark use-cases  of decentralized applications, with proven and verified cryptographic protocols
• Build out monitoring protocols and fail-over measures.
• Collaborate with development teams to develop integration design and where appropriate prepare estimates on design and development services for integration initiatives
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter that requires minimal supervision

Requirements:

• Strong command of computer science fundamentals
• Security-first development mindset
• Strong object oriented programming language background in one or more of the following languages: Go, Java, JavaScript 
• 5+ years’ experience in Development / Design of large and complex distributed computing environments
• Experience in blockchain use-case implementations using smart contracts/DApps etc.
• Proven track record of delivering software development projects
• Experience with Linux / Ubuntu
• Understanding of security procedures and practices.
• Experience with one or more front-development frameworks, such as React.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as Amazon, Gaia, or Microsoft
• Familiarity with using Git or other version control software for source code management
• Distributed messaging experience such as Kafka