Lead Software Engineer - EVM Expertise

About The Role:

The Software Engineering team at Shardeum is responsible for delivering the Shardeum Mainnet, and developing the smart contract platform, the consensus layer and the protocol layer. We focus on building scalable, performant, secure and reliable software that can be downloaded by thousands of node operators to actualize the Shardeum network. We are in search of a highly talented, innovative Lead Blockchain Engineer that has hands-on, practical Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) experience - preferably with another L1 blockchain.

If you enjoy solving complex computer science problems, are passionate about what you work on, are a perfectionist who wants to build things the right way, and are persistent about finishing what you started, then you're the kind of person we are looking for. You will be working with equally talented and innovative individuals with the goal of building incredible software with the potential to change the world.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic road maps for our EVM based Smart Contracts platform.
• Manage individual, EVM based projects, priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, coding standards and EVM basics.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of complex software components on the EVM.
• Take on end-to-end ownership of critical software components related to our EVM based smart contracts platform.
• 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.
• The tech stack you will be using is: Nodejs, TypeScript, SQLite, Postgres, React and Vuejs
• The development environment will be: Linux, Git, AWS, Docker and VS Code.

What We're Looking

• Extensive experience designing, implementing and maintaining an EVM based Smart Contract platform.
• 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.
• 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.

We'd Love If You Have:

• 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.

We are building the infrastructure for Web 3.0. It's going to be a rollercoaster ride but promises to be fun!