Software Engineering Senior Rust in dcSpark

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We're crypto ecosystem builders. We empower everyday individuals with peer-to-peer technology in addition to providing blockchain solutions to a wide variety of clients from standard corporations and foundations to DAOs and treasuries.

Our goal is to become one of the top blockchain development firms in the world, but not by creating the 10 millionth "novel" blockchain and starting from 0 as one may expect. Instead we are tackling real problems in existing ecosystems in top crypto projects, thereby addressing the real needs of users. As such we aren't reinventing the wheel but rather fortifying existing designs of the wheel and building out the rest of the car which makes the wheel actually useful.

Experience

Our founding team has combined over a decade of experience in blockchain development and producing products. The dcSpark team has proven deep knowledge in creating cryptographic libraries, ideation of protocols, etc.

Job functions

Although the Cardano blockchain is written in Haskell, there is also a Rust SDK for Cardano. This Rust SDK is used by a large number of companies with hundreds of thousands of users.
We want to take this Rust SDK to the next level not just by integrating more functionality, but also implementing new ways of interacting with the Rust codebase through a networking layer and a consensus layer.
Cardano is built using formal specifications, and so this position will include reading these specifications and building a Rust codebase that conforms to these specifications.
Although these specifications are the source of truth (the Haskell implementation is just following the specifications), there may be cases where deep investigation is required to figure out how the Haskell implementation works (notably, if the Rust & Haskell implementations disagree on a result, an investigation will be required to decide which is correct)

Qualifications and requirements

Your will be expected to:

Help coordinate the development of a complex software project with many application streams
Plan development tasks in consultation with the tech architect
Follow agile software development practices
Work with teams across time zones
Work independently on software development tasks
Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
Contribute to the design of algorithms
Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies acceptance criteria and specifications
Commit often and submit small pull requests frequently
Cover your code with unit, property and integration tests when applicable
Review the pull requests of your team mates
Fix bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
Write documentation for the code
Develop your knowledge of distributed and concurrent computation
Develop your knowledge of the basics of cryptography.

Desirable skills

We appreciate familiarity with agile development methodologies, and an ability to adapt them to the needs of the team and the projects
A degree in computer science is desirable but not essential
A minimum of five years’ development experience (professional or otherwise) in Rust
Experience working with Git and Git workflow
Practical experience with agile software development methods
Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
Solid system programming experience: you’ll have strong experience in system development (ideally in Rust, but relevant experience in C/C++ will be considered)
Distributed system and network development
Software development methods such as agile programming and test-driven development
Experience in developing cryptography protocols would be a bonus, as would blockchain experience.

Conditions

Fully remote company.
A lot of learning in what many people consider the fastest growing industry.
We can potentially sponsor VISAS e.g. Japan, but work still be remote.
Opportunities to work with projects that are looking to interact with hundred of thousands of users.

Fully remote You can work from anywhere in the world.

Flexible hours Flexible schedule and freedom for attending family needs or personal errands.

Speaker travel If you speak at a conference, dcSpark will cover your expenses.

Education stipend dcSpark covers some educational expenses related to the position.

Conference stipend dcSpark covers tickets and/or some expenses for conferences related to the position.

Informal dress code No dress code is enforced.

Vacation over legal dcSpark gives you paid vacations over the legal minimum.

Vacation on birthday Your birthday counts as an extra day of vacation.

Remote work policy

Fully remote

Candidates can reside anywhere in the world.