JavaScript Engineer

We are looking for people based in time zones between UTC-8:00 and UTC-0:00 (North and South America, Western Europe and Western Africa).

Joining our team at this time will be an opportunity to contribute to and help lead a variety of engineering initiatives critical to the future of MetaMask and the decentralized web, including:

• Building and shipping the MetaMask Snaps plugin system
• Optimizing and solidifying performance, security and stability throughout our metamask-extension codebase and its many dependencies
• Implementing delightful user experiences and interfaces that will define tomorrow’s wallets

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for engineers who will:

• Be growth-minded, collaborative, and can enjoy some amount of ambiguity, autonomy, and freedom to experiment
• Own the development of features for our browser extension
• Improve MetaMask through effective review of pull requests, triaging and analysis of GitHub issues, auditing and refactoring the codebase, and testing
• Proactively contribute to team discussions about UX design, technical issues, sprint and roadmap planning, and improving team processes
• Be proficient and thoughtful with asynchronous and synchronous communication, giving and receiving feedback, and working independently and with a team
• Support their teammates’ performance and growth
• Be successful working within a fully remote environment
• Bring respect, patience, and empathy to every interaction and relationship with coworkers and the community
• Bring hustle, enthusiasm, heart and a love of shipping code and fixing bugs to their work

Technical Requirements

We are hiring at varying levels of experience. Most successful candidates will have at least a couple years of production experience. Meanwhile, there are key opportunities for individuals looking for very senior roles and responsibilities.

Successful candidates will be proficient, or be able to quickly become proficient, in the following areas:

• JavaScript and TypeScript
• React and Redux
• Architecting and implementing APIs (for servers or services) in a Node.js context
• Some or all of: Node.js streams, Service Workers, generators, Observables, WebSockets
• Browsers and browser APIs
• Front-end build tools: Grunt, Gulp, webpack, or similar
• Testing: unit, integration, end-to-end
• CSS and modern libraries/extensions like Sass, SCSS, Less

While not required, experience in any of the following areas is very nice to have:

• Security engineering
• Ethereum dapp development
• Involvement in EIP authoring or review processes
• Refactoring large, complex codebases
• Design systems

About ConsenSys

ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company. We enable developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Our product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for our clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain in the world, leading in business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open source foundation, we are building the digital economy of tomorrow. To explore our products and solutions, visit http://consensys.net/.

About Truffle

We make open source tools for building blockchain applications. Our tools let users simulate blockchain virtual machines, debug smart contracts step-by-step, manage suites of automated tests, deploy applications to live networks, interface with smart contracts at a high level of abstraction, and much more. We believe that software development tools should offer sensible defaults and never lose sight of human intent amidst low-level details.