Solidity / Solana SDK Software Engineer

Who We Are:

Solana is a high performant blockchain that can enable growing decentralized applications and systems to scale without sacrificing security. Our team is highly specialized and talented, so we’re looking for people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help us find product market fit as we build out the Solana ecosystem. If you’re looking to join a fast paced, problem solving environment in the center of blockchain infrastructure, cryptocurrency and decentralized applications, then read on.

Responsibilities:

• Own entire features from specification to shipping
• Demonstrate solid engineering practices and processing, such as a solid testing methodology and documentation
• Ability to work cross-functionally to produce quality code and product
• Develop the Solidity for Solana SDK which uses the Solang compiler
• Write developer documentation for the SDK
• Write a porting to Solana guide for Solidity developers
• Help solidity developers on discord

Requirements:

• Have experience building open source libraries
• Programming in JavaScript/Typescript is required
• Experience with Solidity / EVM tooling in JS or Rust so they know what the landscape and DX is like
• Good documentation skills and happy to deal with questions on discord
• Ability to read rust code, to help understanding of how the Solana blockchain works
• Experience writing core infrastructure software, developing distributed systems or highly scalable databases
• Bitcoin/Ethereum/Blockchain related open sources projects is a major bonus as well
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering and 4 years of experience as a professional software developer
• Must have 4 years of experience in the following: Computer systems software and Design; Computer Security Design; Capability-based security models; Programming in C, C++, BASH, Rust; Computer and Operating Systems; Git version control and Linux; and Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS.
• Designing secure protocols, software, and algorithms which reduce trust.
• Experience in Bitcoin, cryptography, or financial software a major plus but not necessary
• Open source experience