Senior Solutions Engineer, Nillion
Secure processing layer for Web3
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Secure processing layer for Web3
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring to life fast, permissionless, decentralized computation.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working as a Full Stack Developer (ideally Python & JavaScript, Rust experience favourable)
- Strong proficiency in unix CLI environment
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and happy to adapt to use whatever is required to solve the problem
- Highly proactive and takes ownership of their work
- Strong communication skills and at ease communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong collaborative working style, ideating towards the best solution and decision
- Strong ability to formulate an abstract understanding of our SDK (Software Development Kit) needs
- Web 3.0 experience or expertise in Cryptography, Blockchain or MPC specifically within a customer-facing environment
- Has worked in several early stage companies and can articulate the unique technical and business challenges when designing with and integrating 3rd party technologies
What the job involves
- As a Solutions Engineer at Nillion, you will prototype, build and experiment on the network
- You will be responsible for taking the current feature set on the network and, alongside the product and engineering teams, ideating, iterating and building new and exciting use cases that solve our current and future user’s needs
- This role at Nillion will play a critical role in bringing our product and company vision to life, by accelerating the internal development on top of the network and expanding the horizon of possible use cases that it can unlock
- Becoming a subject matter expert and superuser of our SDK. This will include updating documentation and providing support for our external partners and developers building their products on Nillion
- Communicating effectively to technical and non-technical audiences to bridge the gap between developers and business
- Providing feedback to the broader team on how we can improve customer integration processes and implement strategies to get more developers and companies to launch on the network
- Working hands-on with prospects and customers to find solutions to their business requirements while demonstrating and communicating the value of Nillion’s technology throughout the sales cycle, from demos, proof of concepts, all the way to production implementation
- Creating prototypes (apps, programs, systems) on the network
- Working closely with the product team to understand the user needs and problems
- Working closely with the engineering team to find solutions for these problems
- Creating comprehensive solution diagrams for internal and external communication
Our take
Blockchain security hasn’t kept pace with the speed of blockchain development, leading to billions of dollars worth of hacks and exploits. Part of the issue is that data isn’t fully decentralised: computations are currently run on a single node, and verified by others, creating privacy vulnerabilities. Nillion has developed a complex solution that builds on an existing strategy: multi-party computation (MPC).
MPC is a cryptographic protocol in which parties can jointly compute outputs without being privy to other parties’ data. This achieves the greater levels of distribution which are expected to help fend off data hacks and breaches - but it’s not foolproof, especially against expert hackers willing to invest extensive time and resources.
Nillion’s solution, what it’s calling Nil Message Compute, adds an extra layer of complication: data is stored across different nodes as unrecognisable, information-theoretic security particles, so it can be computed rapidly but without the need for inter-node messaging. It’s a level of security that’s been described as “crypto analytically unbreakable”, and its implications for the decentralised blockchain space could be huge. It puts Nillion firmly at the sector’s cutting edge, and its early VC funding awarded at the end of 2022 indicates that investors believe so too.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2024
$25m
EARLY VC
Dec 2022
$20m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours to accommodate lifestyles and a globally distributed team
- Token Compensation; acquire Nll tokens as part of your bonus
- Make a big impact as a early contributor to an incredible founding team
- Work on new problems in an incredible emerging and dynamic field
- Learn from systems engineering, cryptography, and finance domain experts in a mentorship-oriented work culture
- You don’t need to be in an office or at a desk to have an impact anymore! We are fully remote, but value regular meet-ups
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Leadership
Miguel de Vega
(Chief Scientific Officer)Completed a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering at ULB, and spent time as a Siemens IT Consultant before moving into a Project Manager role at Open Canarias. Subsequently co-founded, and led, Browseye, iFlikeU, and Dialective; then served as VP of Data Science at Treexor, and CTO at Sedicii.
Andrew Masanto
(Co-founder)Trained in Law, but went on to found Altitude Shoes, Higher Click, ANONA, and NFT.com. Was also the founding CMO at Hedera Hashgraph and Reserve, and spent time on the Board of Directors for Cornerstone Capital.
Rob Leslie
(President)Founded and still currently leads Sedicii, and previously co-founded Kyckr, as well as spending time on various working groups with the World Economic Forum.
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