Senior SDK Engineer, O(1) Labs
Blockchain technology company
Open for applications
Blockchain technology company
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a private and secure way to access Web 3.0.
Role
Who you are
- A solid foundation in TypeScript AND JavaScript is the only hard requirement
- Functional programming
- Cryptography and/or blockchains
- Zero knowledge proof systems
- Low-level performance optimizations
- Distributed systems
- Speaking at conferences
- The ideal candidate is passionate about functional programming in TypeScript, and can bring a range of additional expertise to a complex, collaborative environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a software engineer to join the SDK team and help build tools that drive zero knowledge application (zkApp) development, both on Mina Protocol and standalone
- These tools include o1js and the zkapp-cli. They are written predominantly in TypeScript and interact with systems written in Rust and OCaml
- Build and maintain o1js, which entails integrating with various cryptographic systems and utilizing Mina Protocol
- Build and maintain the zkapp-cli, which scaffolds zkApps and provides developer tooling for testing and deployment to the Mina Protocol
- Create and maintain new tools that help developers build zkApps
- Understand the challenges faced by these developers
- Communicate and collaborate with other engineering teams
- Attend periodic team offsites all over the world
- We are eager to hear from engineers with a wide range of skills, who are motivated and excited to solve novel problems rooted in challenging domains
Our take
Blockchain technology is an essential part of Web 3.0 infrastructure, but it is currently limited by problems of scalability. The constantly growing size of any blockchain's ledger requires expensive node infrastructure, which poses technical problems as well as undercutting Web 3.0's promise of decentralisation.
0(1) Labs, in response to this, incubated the Mina Protocol, which is a lightweight blockchain that can scale to any size, while remaining small enough for cell phones to act as nodes. This has since grown into a thriving ecosystem of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) developers (drawn in both by the promise of the technology, and by grants provided through token sales) while 0(1) Labs continues to work on several other ZK projects.
Despite crypto and blockchain spaces experiencing some troubles of late, O(1)'s infrastructure has been shown to work, which means it can continue to drive acceptance of ZK products into the mainstream. With strong funding at its back, it can be expected that O(1) Labs will continue investing in engineering and product development as it pursues its goal of bringing Web 3.0 to the general public.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2020
$10.9m
EARLY VC
Apr 2019
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $28.9m
Company benefits
- Employee governance
- Remote Work
- Bi-Annual Company Offsites
- Learning, Development, and Work-Life Balance
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brandon Kase
(CEO)Brandon joined O(1) Labs in 2018 as a Protocol Engineer. Prior to this, they were an iOS Core Experience Engineer at Pinterest and a Software Engineer at Highlight.
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