Role overview
NEAR's mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. The NEAR platform provides a decentralized application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of Open Finance and the Open Web in their hands.
The NEAR platform, NEAR Protocol and associated tooling are being built by the NEAR Collective, a collection of the best engineers in the world who work across teams, companies and countries similar to other large scale open source projects. Core contributors include a couple of 2-time ICPC world champions, 4 gold medalists, one Google Code Jam champion and one TopCoder Open champion, and multiple other competitive programming finalists.
What you'll work on
- Communication and collaboration with a fully distributed team
- Design and implementation of various complex Rust components
- End-to-end ownership of various components
- Performance tuning and optimizations
- Work with a product manager on various feature requests from different stakeholders in the ecosystem.
What we're looking for
- Familiarity with internals of other blockchains
- Knowledge of cryptography
- Knowledge of compilers or virtual machines
- Knowledge of networks or operating systems
- Experience debugging complex concurrent systems