About the Company:

Shardeum is building a layer 1, EVM-based, linearly scalable, smart contract platform that provides low gas fees forever while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum aims to be a chain capable of onboarding over a billion people to the crypto revolution, while also democratizing accessibility to decentralization.

Shardeum’s mission is supported by prominent Venture Capitalists in the blockchain space, and we are on track to become one of the most widely used and well known smart contract platforms in blockchain history.

We encourage you to browse our website, Whitepaper, Discord and YouTube channel to learn more about the project. You can even try downloading our validator software and joining our Testnet.

We encourage people of all backgrounds and experience levels to apply. Your talent and potential is what matters most to us. Shardeum is committed to creating an inclusive culture.

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 highly talented, innovative Principal Blockchain Engineer to join our team. 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 roadmaps
Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
Contributing to the architecture and implementation of complex software components in Node.js
End-to-end ownership of critical software components
Designing and developing innovative new consensus and protocol software
Ensuring performance optimization, and making scalability / reliability improvements to the software
Testing, reviewing and suggesting improvements to the software
Resolving issues, debugging errors and fixing code to improve the reliability and security of the software
The tech stack you will be using is: Node.js, TypeScript, SQLite, Postgres, React and Vue.js
The development environment will be: Linux, Git, AWS, Docker and VSCode

What We're Looking For:

You know what high quality code look like and know how to foster an environment that creates it
Fluency with algorithms and data structures
Ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
Ability to write clean yet efficient code
The Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design, while not knowing all the details
Self motivated to set priorities and methodically make progress towards the 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 with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
Familiarity with the Shardeum / Shardus open source repos
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
Knowledge of cryptography
Experience with networks and operating systems
Contributed to open source projects
Written articles or created videos on technical topics, especially related to blockchain
Read the Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepapers

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

About the Founders:

Nischal Shetty: Founder of WazirX, India’s largest crypto exchange with over 10M users and $45B+ trading volume. Prior to WazirX, he built and scaled a social media product called Crowdfire to over 20M users. Previously featured in the Forbes India 30 under 30 list, he is a blockchain evangelist and one of the most notable proponents of crypto in India.

Omar Syed: Omar is a blockchain architect with over 30 years of experience in helping organizations such as NASA, Yahoo, Zynga build fault-tolerant, distributed systems. Omar holds a B.S. and M.S. from Case Western Reserve University with specialization in Artificial Intelligence.