Software Engineer - Nim

You ideally will have

• A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization.
  
• At least 4 years of software engineering experience.
  
• Experience with low-level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
  
• Embedded systems development experience.
  
• 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.
  

Bonus points if you have

• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open-source project.
  
• Embedded in the Ethereum community.
  
• Experience with Nim.
  
• Experience with C bindings and FFIs.
  
• Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p / devp2p.
  

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Hiring process

1. Interview with our People Ops team
   
2. Technical Interview with a member of the Waku Team
   
3. Pair Programming Interview with a member of the Waku Team
   
4. Interview with a Program Lead
   

You ideally will have

• A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization.
  
• At least 4 years of software engineering experience.
  
• Experience with low-level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
  
• Embedded systems development experience.
  
• 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.
  

Bonus points if you have

• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open-source project.
  
• Embedded in the Ethereum community.
  
• Experience with Nim.
  
• Experience with C bindings and FFIs.
  
• Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p / devp2p.
  

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Hiring process

1. Interview with our People Ops team
   
2. Technical Interview with a member of the Waku Team
   
3. Pair Programming Interview with a member of the Waku Team
   
4. Interview with a Program Lead
   

• Implement and develop open protocols for secure messaging.
  
• Create and maintain a sustainable and fault-tolerant distributed system.
  
• Write and maintain Nim code.
  
• Understand and optimize the core functionality of complex software systems.
  
• 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.
  
• Support platforms and operators using nwaku software.