Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Innovate and Maintain: Design and implement key improvements to the Everclear (prev Connext) codebases, focusing on enhancing product quality and protocol reliability.
• Ownership: Take ownership of maintaining and improving parts of our existing stack, with an emphasis on backend infrastructure.
• Quality Assurance: Support system-wide monitoring and alerting to ensure our infrastructure remains robust and reliable.
• Open-Source Collaboration: Review and accept code contributions from open-source developers and community members, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate with external teams within the ecosystem to integrate and align our technologies.
• Remote Team Coordination: Effectively co-work with remote teams across different time zones, ensuring seamless communication and project progression.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with highly performant, concurrent distributed systems.
• Extensive experience building and maintaining production systems at scale.
• Experience with Typescript, Rust, and Go.
• Basic experience with Ethereum development paradigms (Ethers, Hardhat, etc.).
• Familiarity with Postgres and SQL.Familiarity with queue architectures such as Kafka, Docker, AWS.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Experience with security hygiene best practices
• Security first mindset
• A drive to be constantly learning - much of what we're working on is groundbreaking technology and requires having an investigative, growth mindset to succeed in.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with p2p networks and consensus systems.
• Experience with Solidity.
• Dev ops expertise (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.)