Tech Lead, Hyperlane
Platform for connecting apps across blockchains
Job no longer available
Platform for connecting apps across blockchains
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate applications towards the interchain singularity.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ years of experience of building and managing high-productivity engineering teams
- 3+ years of Typescript/Javascript/Node.js
- 2+ years of experience working with Ethereum or similar blockchain-based smart contract platforms
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to operate independently under uncertainty
- Strong sense of initiative and ownership
- The drive, intensity, and motivation to perform at a world class level
- Are a crypto native
- BONUS: Experience working on developer products
What the job involves
- Be Abacus Works' first engineering hire explicitly having people management responsibilities on the engineering team which is primarily spread across our London and New York offices
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance
- Provide technical guidance and support to engineers, assisting in problem-solving and overcoming challenges
- Conduct regular performance evaluations, set performance goals, and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Identify and nurture talent within the team, fostering professional growth and providing opportunities for skill development and career advancement
- Scale the engineering team by identifying leads, screening and interviewing candidates for technical skills and cultural fit, as well as improve our engineering hiring processes more generally
- Still be coding, i.e
- Build out core functionality of the protocol (e.g. interchain gas payments)
- Develop libraries, APIs, services, and documentation for developers building with Hyperlane (e.g. an interchain block explorer)
- Deploy and maintain on and off-chain production services
Our take
Cryptocurrencies have proliferated over the last decade, providing an alternative to traditional forms of financial asset. But as they’ve grown, the blockchains supporting them have sprung up completely independently, with very little ability for connectivity or transfer between them. This is where Hyperlane comes in, with its platform to help developers connect applications across blockchains.
Connection could already be made, through cross-chain bridges which support the movement of digital assets from one chain to another, but these are often weak and targeted by hackers, resulting in $2 billion in losses each year. Hyperlane offers new tools with enhanced security, to make these connections safe.
The company is pioneering in its approach, and has attracted attention for creating the possibility of launching cryptocurrency into a new, more universal era. Hyperlane is well-funded, and has focussed on expanding its team as well as development of product security.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2022
$18.5m
SEED
Total funding: $18.5m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Asa Oines
(Co-Founder)Former Software Engineer at Google and at cLabs.
Nam Chu Hoai
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously founded Credport and was Global Entrepreneur in Residence at the Venture Development Center at UMass Boston. They also worked as a Software at both Wellframe and cLabs.
Jon Kol
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Morgan Stanley and Galaxy Digital.
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