Software Engineer, Zero-Knowledge

NEAR Protocol is a developer-first blockchain that emphasizes convenience of development and scalability on NEAR platform. Due to its ability to accommodate multiple runtimes, virtual machines, and contract languages NEAR is a great platform for developing complex solutions on top of it.

NEAR Inc is looking for a software engineer with experience building and maintaining Zero-Knowledge projects. You will be the in-house expert on Zero-Knowledge and you will initiate, implement and lead variety of projects in this area, both built on top of NEAR Protocol and integrated deeply into the NEAR Protocol itself. You will be also tasked to lead communication with variety of ZK projects that are working with NEAR Inc.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Designing, building, and maintaining Zero-Knowledge projects built on top of NEAR
• Communicating and auditing projects external projects that are building on NEAR and are using ZK
• Collaborating with internal and external engineers and community members
• Create and contribute to documentation related to various developer libraries and APIs

What We're Looking For:

• Knowledge and experience with Zero-Knowledge
• Demonstrated experience writing well-structured, clean, maintainable code
• Ability to learn new languages, APIs and SDKs quickly
• Experience and interest in building and documenting developer-facing tools
• Knowledge of Rust or other low-level language
• Strong communication and remote friendly working skills

We'd Love If You Have:

• Knowledge or experience with cryptography
• Open source contributions and previous or continued involvement in open source communities
• Familiarity with Ethereum development and related technologies (web3.js, ethers.js, etc)
• Familiarity with other crypto or blockchain technologies
• Experience working at a startup

Locations: Anywhere in the world

Working at NEAR: Roles are posted to this portal on behalf of the companies that make up the NEAR Collective and are typically located anywhere in the world because most of the companies are fully remote. Some hubs are located in Switzerland, Germany, Russia, the US and China. Regardless of where you work, this is a high performance culture that values ownership, execution and professionalism but pairs it with curiosity and experimentation. The vision is big but the right team is behind it.

About NEAR And The NEAR Collective

NEAR's purpose is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world and its mission is to drive the adoption of Open Technologies. The NEAR platform provides a decentralized application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of Open Finance and the Open Web in their hands.

The NEAR platform, NEAR Protocol, and associated tooling are being built by the NEAR Collective, a collection of the best engineers in the world who work across teams, companies and countries similar to other large scale open-source projects. Core contributors include a couple of 2-time ICPC world champions, 4 gold medalists, a Latin American champion and multiple other competitive programming finalists.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. NEAR is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.