Blockchain Engineer

Responsibilities

• Research, strategize and educate on methodology and best practices for blockchain design, implementation, and deployment
• Collaborate with a team and open source community to design and build the Mav Farm blockchain with the following design goals:
• Decreased transaction times and costs
• Programmable payment systems
• Programmable name management systems
• Hybrid on-chain/off-chain programming models
• Custom per-namespace consensus algorithms
• Protocols for enacting soft forks
• Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure
• Design and implement blockchain supporting tools and utilities (e.g., CLI client, tools for exploring the blockchain, monitoring, benchmarking or debugging tools)

Qualifications

• You have worked with a founding team building a blockchain, are an expert in decentralized solutions, and are passionate about our mission of building a new decentralized internet.
• Expert knowledge of peer-to-peer distributed system design and implementation, including familiarity with state-of-the-art academic literature on the subject and practical knowledge on engineering successful peer-to-peer systems.
• Experience in the low-level implementation and protocol details of a widely-deployed public blockchain
• Strong background in security-oriented system design, with a focus on applied cryptography
• Must be able to identify and defend against plausible protocol-level and network-level attacks on the system.
• Strong programming skills and familiarity with programming languages and technologies - C++, Python 2, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solidity, Simplicity, Go, Rust
• Experience deploying Bitcoin infrastructure, like UTXO providers and block explorers
• Passion for building the new internet for decentralized apps
• Strong problem solving skills, ability to think fast and thoroughly
• Excellent communication