Protocol Engineer

Ideally you will have:

• A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization.
  
• Strong academic or engineering background.
  
• Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms.
  
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
  
• Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically.
  
• Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks.
  
• Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal.
  
• Experience designing incentive systems and writing/deploying smart contracts in Ethereum.
  

Ideally you will have:

• A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization.
  
• Strong academic or engineering background.
  
• Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms.
  
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
  
• Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically.
  
• Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks.
  
• Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal.
  
• Experience designing incentive systems and writing/deploying smart contracts in Ethereum.
  

• Research and develop open protocols for secure messaging.
  
• Use a layered protocol approach that is mindful and explicit about what it requires, what it provides, under what threat models, and with what trade-offs.
  
• Combine cryptoeconomics and traditional technologies to create a sustainable distributed and fault-tolerant system.
  
• Write and maintain Nim code.
  
• Research and design core functionality.
  
• Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
  
• Use libp2p to build application-level protocols.
  
• Build incentivized, distributed systems.
  
• Interpret and implement solutions based on academic research.