Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

- Innovate and Maintain: Design and implement key improvements to the Everclear (prev Connext) codebases, focusing on enhancing product quality and protocol reliability.

- Ownership: Take ownership of maintaining and improving parts of our existing stack, with an emphasis on backend infrastructure.

- Quality Assurance: Support system-wide monitoring and alerting to ensure our infrastructure remains robust and reliable.

- Open-Source Collaboration: Review and accept code contributions from open-source developers and community members, fostering a collaborative environment.

- Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate with external teams within the ecosystem to integrate and align our technologies.

- Remote Team Coordination: Effectively co-work with remote teams across different time zones, ensuring seamless communication and project progression.

Requirements

- 3+ years of experience with highly performant, concurrent distributed systems.

- Extensive experience building and maintaining production systems at scale.

- Experience with Typescript, Rust, and Go.

- Basic experience with Ethereum development paradigms (Ethers, Hardhat, etc.).

- Familiarity with Postgres and SQL.Familiarity with queue architectures such as Kafka, Docker, AWS.

- Excellent communication and organizational skills.

- Experience with security hygiene best practices

- Security first mindset

- A drive to be constantly learning - much of what we're working on is groundbreaking technology and requires having an investigative, growth mindset to succeed in.

Nice-to-Haves

- Experience with p2p networks and consensus systems.

- Experience with Solidity.

- Dev ops expertise (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.)