Status is hiring Web3 Software Engineer (Waku Chat SDK)
Software Engineer (Waku Chat SDK)
Experience
Minimum 1 Year
Employee type
Full Time
Position
Senior
Offer Salary
$70K - $85K
Desired Qualifications
- Have experience building applications with complex logic, cutting edge technology or applied research.
- Experience with Golang or other system/backend languages such as C/C++/C#/Java/Rust, etc.
- Have experience building instant messaging and chat applications that includes cryptographic such as end-to-end encryption.
- Have passion for blockchain and decentralized technologies and understand how they work.
- Have good communication skills (written and conversational).
- Have a strong alignment to our principles
Duties & Responsibilities
- Integrate Waku in Status Communities Golang application (status-go).
- Liaise with Status engineer to support and investigate issues encountered by the chat functionalities in status-go.
- Liaise with Waku engineers to report bugs and use new APIs.
- Maintain, improve and troubleshoot the chat related functionalities of status-go codebase. Report issues to Waku and Status teams.
- Beyond 3-6 months: Create a Golang Chat SDK using knowledge acquired working on status-go.
Soft Skills
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You are already familiar with the Ethereum community
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You have experience with go-libp2p or other libp2p implementations
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You have experience with C-Bindings & Cgo
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You are in Web3 or blockchain development
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You have experience working for an open source organization
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You have experience working async
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[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].
Salary & Benefits
- The expected compensation range for this role is $70,000 - $85,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process).
- We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.
Our Company
About Waku We are building Waku as a public good infrastructure. Waku is the messaging layer of Web3.
It is a decentralized, censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving communication network that enables anyone to send and receive messages without worrying about surveillance or deplatforming.
We are developing 3 open source implementations of Waku:
Nwaku. https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku: the reference implementation and service node Js-waku, https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku: for the browser Go-waku: https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku: to integrate as a library in native applications We are enabling Ethereum builders to create new projects with a fully decentralized architecture, think dApp to Wallet notifications, NFT marketplaces, censorship-resistant chat, layer-2 decentralization and more.
Waku enables a variety of complex use cases and applications. To facilitate the adoption of Waku, you will design and implement application protocols to provide to dapp developers as off-the-shelf SDKs.
Other
- You have experience leading the integration of a complex tech stack in an application
- You are already familiar with the Ethereum community, Web3 or blockchain development
- You work for an open-source organization
- You have experience working remotely
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