Founding Backend Engineer, Axiom

• You are fluent in Rust, C++, or a similarly performant backend language. We work primarily in Rust and Typescript, but prior experience is not mandatory
• You have experience deploying production applications in the cloud using orchestration and containerization (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes)
• You have experience working with production applications hosted on AWS
• You are extremely detail oriented and have a security mindset
• You’ve worked on challenging software projects and have an eye for performance
• You’re a clear communicator and value collaboration
• You have a strong bias towards action
• You have an extremely strong work ethic

Desirable

• We are looking for a founding backend engineer to join a startup using zero-knowledge proofs to scale smart contract applications
• You will be responsible for building cloud-based systems to fulfill and monitor user queries into Axiom, our first product
• This will involve building systems to query blockchain indexers, execute zero-knowledge provers, and submit query outputs on-chain
• The systems you build will orchestrate multiple cloud servers to optimize proving latency, reliability, and cost
• Your work will require designing secure and efficient systems and making design choices to enable rapid development without sacrificing security
• Your day-to-day work will involve implementing and optimizing query pipelines which transform blockchain data to fulfilled Axiom queries
• We are looking for someone with strong engineering design skills, the ability to work across the stack, and a security mindset. We also value the ability to make pragmatic technology choices which empower our small team without adding too much overhead