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Protocol Engineer (Native Libraries)

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

Waku is part of the Logos tech stack, a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.

As a p2p messaging protocol, born from the original Web3 vision, Waku is a decentralised, censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving communication network that enables anyone to message, interact, collaborate, and coordinate without worrying about surveillance or deplatforming.

We are a cypherpunk group, looking for other builders to join a principle-first organisation and build truly decentralised software.

More about us:

Responsibilities:

  • Implement open protocols for peer-to-peer secure messaging.
  • Create and maintain a sustainable and fault-tolerant distributed system.
  • Write and maintain Nim code (nwaku codebase).
  • Understand and optimise the core functionality of complex software systems.
  • Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
  • Use libp2p to build infrastructure-level protocols.
  • Support platforms and operators using nwaku software.
  • Maintain Golang, Rust and other language SDKs built on top of FFI bindings.

Ideally, you have

  • A passion for privacy-preserving, decentralised and blockchain technology.
  • At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with low-level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust).
  • 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 experience in:

  • Embedded systems development experience.
  • Contributed to a blockchain-related, open-source project.
  • Experience with Valgrind, or gdb, or gprof or perf.
  • Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p.

Compensation:

We are happy to pay in a mix of fiat and/or crypto. For more information regarding contributing to IFT: https://contributors.free.technology/

Hiring process:

  1. Introduction call with People Ops team
  2. Pair programming session with nwaku team member
  3. Technical Culture Interview with nwaku team lead
  4. Interview with Waku 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.

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Full Time

Experience level

Senior

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Open to candidates from all countries.

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Worldwide

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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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