Senior Full Stack Engineer, Solana

Strategic Initiatives

$140-240k

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Figma

Senior level

Chicago

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Scalable blockchain infrastructure for building crypto apps

Job no longer available

Scalable blockchain infrastructure for building crypto apps

201-500 employees

CryptocurrencyEnterpriseBlockchain

Job no longer available

$140-240k

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Figma

Senior level

Chicago

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

201-500 employees

CryptocurrencyEnterpriseBlockchain

Company mission

To empower developers to create scalable crypto apps with speed, security, and simplicity.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience working in some combination of backend and frontend/web codebases
5+ years experience working with Typescript/Javascript
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
A strong interest in web3 and Blockchain technology
Experience delivering large greenfield/0-to-1 projects
A passion for product with an interest in helping shape product vision
Some familiarity with with spinning up new infrastructure on GCP
Familiarity with navigating Figma mockups

What the job involves

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll work in a very small team helping to build out a greenfield project. You’ll be responsible for major architectural decisions, deeply understanding the product requirements, interpreting user feedback, and assisting the design and product members of the team in developing solutions
Design, plan, and implement new APIs and SDKs
Integrate with downstream web3 solutions providers
Convert designer mockups into performant UIs
Contribute to the technical direction of the Solana Games platform while aligning with the team’s overall strategy
Improve and maintain the software that your team produces

Our take

Blockchain facilitates decentralized and secure cryptocurrency transactions, but current blockchain technology presents some serious problems. The validation of a blockchain transaction is verified through mathematical puzzles named 'proof of work', a process that is extremely energy-intensive and thus unsustainable in terms of scaling.

Solana develops blockchain technology that uses an alternative verification system named 'proof of history', a method in which 'proof of work' has been replaced with a timestamp of each transaction that can then be verified. The new technology doesn't require the GPU-intensive work that the existing blockchain technology relies on, allowing for instantaneous transactions, higher levels of security, and energy efficiency.

The company has quite rightly pointed out that as long as blockchain technology remains a high contributor to carbon emissions, it's simply not scalable, sustainable, or futureproof. By developing the new 'proof of history' means of validation, Solana presents a serious solution for blockchain technology to be innovated upon both in terms of efficiency, speed, and security.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

4% employee growth in 12 months

Trustpilot (1.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2021

$314m

LATE VC

Mar 2021

$40m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $375.8m

Company benefits

Work from home opportunities

Company HQ

Alamo Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Raj Gokal

(Co-Founder)

They started their career as an Analyst at Financo, before roles at General Catalyst Partners and Rock Health. They co-founded Sano in 2011 and served as Director of Product at Omada Health before co-founding Solana in December 2017.

Anatoly Yakovenko

(Co-Founder)

They started their career as co-founder of Alescere before spending almost 13 years as a Qualcomm Engineer Manager. They worked in that capacity at Mesosphere and Dropbox before founding Solana with Raj in 2017.

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