Software Engineer, Frontier Tools

We are looking for a talented, meticulous, and productive person who loves working in an energetic and free-thinking environment, feels comfortable challenging opinions, and most importantly who shares with us the same desire to make the web free again.

NEAR Protocol is looking for a software engineer to join our growing Frontier Tools team. The Frontier Tools team is developing libraries and frameworks for web-development as well as novel and cutting-edge libraries using experimental technologies, like WebAssembly. Some of these libraries are used almost by everyone in NEAR ecosystem, which makes it a high-stakes team, while other libraries are on the bleeding edge of what is done with some technologies, like WebAssembly.

The ideal candidate has experience building and maintaining developer-facing libraries, SDKs, and APIs. In this role, you will maintain and expand TypeScript/JavaScript libraries and frameworks that enable developers to build applications on the NEAR blockchain and participate in research at the forefront of digital asset user and developer experience. Additionally, you might be involved in the development of libraries and frameworks for a variety of other languages compatible with WebAssembly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building production applications, libraries, and APIs
• 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 JavaScript and TypeScript
• Preferably, knowledge of Rust or alternatively C++ or Swift
• Strong communication and remote friendly working skills

Nice to Have

• 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

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining our Rust/TypeScript/JavaScript libraries and SDKs
• Collaborating with internal and external engineers and community members
• Create and contribute to documentation related to various developer libraries and APIs
• Help train and mentor more junior engineers

About NEAR and the NEAR Collective

NEAR's mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. 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, 2 gold medalists, a Latin American champion and multiple other competitive programming finalists.

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.