Principal Blockchain Engineer
About the Role
You will provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic road maps for complex, Layer-1 blockchain projects. You will manage individual projects, priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise. You will mentor and train other team members on design techniques, coding standards and best blockchain basics. You will contribute to the architecture and implementation of complex software components on the blockchain and take on end-to-end ownership of critical software components related to our L1. You will design and develop innovative new consensus and protocol software, ensure performance optimization, and make scalability and reliability improvements to the software. You will also resolve issues, debug errors and fix code to improve the reliability and security of Shardeum software components. The tech stack you will be using is: Nodejs, TypeScript, SQLite, Postgres, React and Vuejs, within a Linux, Git, AWS, and Docker environment.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing, implementing and maintaining complex blockchain components
- You know what high quality code looks like and know how to foster an environment that creates it
- Fluency with algorithms and data structures
- The ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
- The ability to write clean yet efficient code
- The Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design, even in an often ambiguous environment
- Hands-on knowledge and experience with AI tools (Cursor, Github Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, etc...), and the ability to demonstrate how you utilize them in your day to day
- Self motivated to set priorities and methodically make progress toward goals
- The ability to communicate effectively and convey your ideas when discussing technical topics with team members
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience working on all levels of a Layer 1 blockchain
- Experience with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
- Experience with consensus protocols and other blockchains
- Experience with Node.js and TypeScript, or languages like C, C++, Rust or GO
- Experience writing a smart contract on a blockchain
- Experience running a node in a blockchain network
- Read the Bitcoin and Ethereum white papers
Responsibilities
- Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic road maps for complex, Layer-1 blockchain projects
- Manage individual projects, priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, coding standards and best blockchain basics
- Contribute to the architecture and implementation of complex software components on the blockchain
- Take on end-to-end ownership of critical software components related to our L1
- Design and develop innovative new consensus and protocol software
- Ensure performance optimization, and making scalability / reliability improvements to the software
- Resolve issues, debugging errors and fixing code to improve the reliability and security of Shardeum software components