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Protocol Engineer (Ethereum Client)

The Institute of Free Technology (IFT) is a mission-driven tech startup studio that supports the development of open-source projects focused on safeguarding civil liberties in the digital age. They provide financial, technical, legal, and operational support to a portfolio of projects including Status, Logos, and Waku.

Institute of Free Technology

Employee count: 201-500

The Role:

The Nimbus team is looking for a Senior Engineer who will take ownership of Developer Experience. Someone who enjoys researching new technologies and building products for the decentralized web while being amid Open Source Libraries and P2P networks. This means writing cool products in Nim for Ethereum and Web3, crafting documentation and SDKs, plus representing the team at developer conferences and online events.

Nimbus is a research team that focuses on developing an Ethereum client and library. We believe that the largest deployment of Ethereum will potentially be on embedded systems and Nimbus is designed to perform well on embedded, mobile and generally resource-restricted devices.

Building the stack from the ground up, we’re translating the latest Ethereum research into practical, performant and reusable libraries to provide fertile exploration ground for further RD. Check our latest update!

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the effort to create a powerful developer experience around Nimbus, both as a library and as an RPC backend.
  • Respond to community needs requests, transforming them into concrete specifications and products or features.
  • Be the face of our developer community, represent Nimbus at conferences and online events.
  • Create powerful documentation and SDKs.
  • Support evangelizing Nimbus as the Ethereum consensus client for mobile devices and embedded systems within the Open Source community.

You will ideally have:

  • Interest in open data, blockchain and decentralization.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
  • Experience with Rust or C/C++, and curiosity about dynamic languages.
  • Background in (embedded) systems programming, p2p technologies.
  • Familiarity with modern cryptography.
  • Experience with APIs, SDKs and crafting documentation.

Bonus points:

  • Experience working for an open-source organization.
  • Ideally, you’ll have some Nim/Rust/C++ related GitHub projects to make it easier for us to evaluate your skills.
  • Basic knowledge of the lexing, parsing and semantic checking passes applicable to a compiler.
  • Experience with Nim.

Hiring process:

  1. Interview with our People Ops team.
  2. Technical Interview with team members from the Nimbus team.
  3. Technical Interview with the Nimbus Lead.

[The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline. We’re looking for you to join our team as soon as possible].

Compensation:

We are happy to pay in either 100% fiat or any mix of fiat and/or crypto.

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Open to candidates from all countries.

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We are the Institute of Free Technology (IFT), a mission-driven tech startup studio that emerged from Status, which we, Jarrad Hope and Carl Bennetts, founded in 2017. Our initial goal with Status was to enable the free flow of information and protect the right to private, secure conversations. However, as we delved deeper, we recognized gaps in the existing infrastructure needed to fully realize these values. This realization led to an expansion of our project's scope and ultimately, the formation of IFT and the startups it now incubates. Our core mission is to support the development, adoption, and accessibility of solutions to digital age problems. We are guided by a strong set of principles: liberty, censorship resistance, security, privacy, and inclusivity. We actively seek to connect with and support innovators who are dedicated to defending our digital rights.

At IFT, we provide comprehensive support to take ideas from the drawing board to market. This includes financial backing, technical expertise, legal guidance, people operations, and brand-building assistance at every stage. We empower our startups to concentrate on their core strength: building public goods designed to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age. Our portfolio of open source projects is continually growing and currently includes prominent names like Status, Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Nomos, and Keycard. As a team, IFT has been completely distributed since its inception. We boast a strong core of over 220 contributors from diverse backgrounds, spread across the globe. We are deeply passionate about open source, and our organizational structure reflects this with minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We champion a high degree of autonomy, encouraging our team members to work independently while aligning with the organization's overarching priorities.

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Co-working space

Access to co-working spaces is provided.

Unlimited vacation

We offer unlimited vacation to our contributors.

Entirely remote

Our team is completely distributed since inception.

Flexible working hours

Our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours.

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201-500 employees

Founded in

2017

Chief executive officer

Jarrad Hope, Carl Bennetts

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