Blockchain Engineer

Blockdaemon is seeking a Blockchain Engineer to join their team and develop the next generation of secure cross-chain services. This role involves working with a team of senior engineers to create state-of-the-art smart contracts and high-performance services, as well as expanding expertise in the field of distributed systems, cryptography, blockchains, consensus algorithms, cross-chain messaging, and decentralized applications. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of full stack software engineering experience, proficiency in at least one programming language, and experience with cloud infrastructure technology. The role offers a high level of autonomy/ownership over projects and the opportunity to help build the infrastructure of the future.

• Implement resilient distributed systems to achieve extremely high reliability in a variety of blockchain environments
• Employ creative thinking to identify & fix potential attack vectors, anticipate failures, and envision disaster scenarios
• Produce high-quality, well-tested code tailored to the specific requirements of customers, ensuring exceptional performance
• Design and develop blockchain-related microservices and APIs
• Work with the team and partners to meet specification needs in line with business objectives
• Improve Blockdaemon's product and ensure successful delivery to customers

• 5+ years of full stack software engineering
• Proficient with at least one programming language, ideally Golang or similar language
• Proficient with Solidity, Ethereum smart contracts & on-chain methodologies
• Familiar with cloud infrastructure technology (AWS, GCE, Azure, etc)
• Experience with additional blockchains (other than Ethereum) is a huge plus!
• Experience developing complex web applications/services and backend APIs
• Strong communication skills, specifically giving/receiving constructive feedback in a collaborative setting
• Self-motivated and detail oriented while producing high-quality and accurate work in a startup environment
• Ability to work independently debugging problems across the full stack
• Provable experience with a production Smart Contract Development (nice-to-have)
• Developed DeFi smart contracts (nice-to-have)
• Blockchain open-source contributions (nice-to-have)
• Experience developing, deploying and maintaining blockchain nodes (nice-to-have)
• Knowledge of cryptocurrency/token-economics (nice-to-have)
• B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering or related technical field (nice-to-have)