Software Engineer [Go], Celestia
Modular blockchain network
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Modular blockchain network
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change the way that blockchains and decentralized applications are built—making them more secure, sovereign, and scalable.
Role
Who you are
- Self driven, directed, and motivated for excellence
- A strong communicator with excellent technical writing, with experience in building maintainable and well-documented codebases
- Possess solid knowledge of software engineering, technical principles, and technical architectures, with at least 5 years of real-world experience as a developer or engineer
- Highly Proficient in Golang
- Previous experience maintaining or contributing to open source software
- While experience in the blockchain space is preferred – having general excitement about web3 and modular blockchain technology is a must!
What the job involves
- The Celestia Labs Team is remote first and highly distributed, with English as our primary language for communication
- We are looking for self-starters that are excited about working in a fast-paced startup environment. We do not require team members to live in specific timezones, but much of the team lives and works in the European timezones
- As such, team members are expected to be available as needed for team and company events that are scheduled. Generally these are scheduled between 1pm-6pm CET
- Celestia Labs is looking for an elite Software Engineer to join the Celestia Node Team
- You will be working on a highly technical team, operating across a cutting edge set of disciplines to support continued improvement of Celestia’s node software as we solve data availability for teams building whatever
- This role will be of specific interest if working at the frontier of performance, scalability, storage, p2p networking and security in blockchain systems appeals to you with a heavy bias for shipping
- Ownership of parts of the Celestia Node codebase
- Contribute readable, well-tested, and well-documented code to Node and related repositories
- Participate in technical discussions on issues and code reviews on pull requests
- Be a part of the feedback loop between technical specification and implementation
Our take
Blockchains are currently dominated by "monolithic" architecture. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other major chains come as a single package, where every aspect of the chain is tied together. These are inflexible and difficult to customise or scale. Celestia aims to change this with its modular blockchain network, allowing developers to customise each component of the blockchain as needed without having to start from scratch each time.
Celestia's solution competes with the existing model of the larger blockchains, which are racing against one another to provide cheaper transactions. However, the strength of Celestia's decentralised approach is it can compete on fees while also allowing the far greater level of scalability demanded by Web3 applications. Additionally, it avoids the risks of outages that have plagued larger centralised blockchains.
Investors seem to agree with what Celestia is doing: it has completed a combined A and B Series funding round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital. This funding brings its valuation over $1B and into unicorn status. Having initiated an initial testnet in 2022, the company plans to leverage capital to advance its project further.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Oct 2022
$55m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible and remote work environment
- Stipends for home office and coworking space
- Full-team onsites twice per year and smaller-team onsites more frequently
- Budget for conference attendance and professional development
- 4 weeks annual vacation
Company HQ
Vaduz, Vaduz
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Leadership
Mustafa Al-Bassam
(CEO)Previously an Advisor at Nym and Secure Trading. Prior to this was co-founder and Researcher at Chainspace until its acquisition by Facebook.
Ismail Khoffi
(CTO)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Informal Systems and Interchain Foundation. Before this, they were an External Evaluation Expert for the European Commission.
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