Senior Full Stack Engineer, cheqd
$80-90k
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Data network platform
Job no longer available
Data network platform
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
$80-90k
Salary is benchmarked on US rates and may vary by other locations
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
To become the de-facto payment mechanism for trusted (authentic) data.
Role
Who you are
- We’re seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer with deep experience ( 3-5 years) working with TypeScript and preferably within the Cosmos ecosystem or having a solid background in Proof of Stake networks, such as Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana, to join cheqd
- The ideal candidate should have a deep interest in open source software, blockchain, decentralised finance (DeFi), and self-sovereign identity (SSI) with a passion for establishing entirely new paradigms for how data is handled on the Web
- We do NOT expect a candidate to know every single language or framework mentioned above, although strong experience with Svelte and/or React is necessary
- The ideal candidate is a good specialist who can flex across various stacks and be competent at picking up new frameworks where deemed necessary
- 3-5+ years of strong and heterogeneous application development experience in multiple languages/frameworks is a must-have:
- You must have played a significant role in developing apps for at least two categories of clients: web app, mobile app, desktop app, and web backend
- Strong experience in writing web backends and APIs. Any popular languages, such as Node.js, Python, Scala, etc, are acceptable
- Strong experience in web app development (any popular framework such as Svelte Kit, React, Vue). Native mobile app development (React Native preferred; Swift/Objective-C, Kotlin is nice to have)
- Strong experience with application architecture and RESTful API design
- Competence with a systems-level language such as C, C++, Rust, Go
- Experience with or an interest in DevRel (developer relationships), especially in the open-source community, is a must-have
- Excellent command of spoken/written English is essential. You must be good at technical writing and explaining complex concepts in documentation for use by other developers
- A public history of contributing to/collaborating with an open-source project is desirable
- Prior experience with blockchain application development (especially Cosmos, Hyperledger Indy, or another self-sovereign identity framework) is highly desirable
- Experience developing DApps on proof-of-work consensus networks such as Solidity on Ethereum is also acceptable, but must always also demonstrate an understanding of other platforms
- Experience and / or desire to learn blockchain interactive JS / TS libraries such as web3.js, CosmJS
- Familiarity with decentralised storage solutions such as IPFS, Storj, and BitTorrent
- Experience with digital identity, especially self-sovereign identity, standards/implementations such as Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), or Hyperledger Indy/Aries is desirable
- If you don’t have prior experience, you must have a solid drive to learn how to build blockchain applications
- You are genuinely passionate about blockchain and privacy-preserving technology such as self-sovereign identity (SSI)
- You want to be a part of the innovation that is orchestrated by blockchain, digital identity, self-sovereign identity, fintech or DeFi
- You are self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment. You love to constantly learn and keep abreast of trends and developments in the industry
- Personal experience using identity wallets, cryptocurrencies, crypto wallets, decentralised exchanges, lending protocols, etc
What the job involves
- Cheqd is an innovative Web 3.0 startup building private and secure mechanisms for exchanging digital identity online, enabled through a decentralised blockchain network
- You would report directly to our Lead Engineer and be responsible for designing and building APIs and user-facing applications
- We are looking for software leaders with broad experience, a desire to shape the culture of a new team, and a passion for mentoring others
- This role will require open-source collaboration and good communication with ecosystem developers
- Our engineering team has six developers working in a remote-first model across different time zones
- Expanding the team further, and as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you would own and support various parts of the development of our product, Creds.xyz
- We expect you to build web/mobile client apps and libraries, web APIs for client apps, and serverless web backends
- The ideal candidate may have this role evolve into a more senior engineering role in the team
- Design, develop and maintain user-facing features for Creds.xyz web applications
- Implement responsive and intuitive UI/UX designs and server-rendered reusable components in Svelte Kit and TypeScript
- Collaborate with designers and product managers to iterate on user feedback and improve the overall user experience
- Build & deploy Serverless apps on cloud providers such as Cloudflare (we use Cloudflare Pages, Workers, Queues, Hyperdrive and more)
- Define architecture for new token/identity wallets in conjunction with the CTO/Lead Engineer in line with new product requirements
- In general, this category may involve building from scratch and supporting our partners' external developer teams
- Build Web APIs for internal and external utilisation
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs to facilitate B2B interactions and integrations with auto-generated API documentation using Swagger, OpenAPI, or ReDoc
- Write or improve client application APIs for interfaces such as GraphQL, JSON-RPC, etc
- Implement secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms for API endpoints
- Strong background in SQL such as PostgreSQL NoSQL databases such as MongoDB Redis
- Be interested in promoting good developer relationships (DevRel), especially in open-source/blockchain projects
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and design API solutions that meet their needs
- Performance optimisation, following Security and compliance best practices
- Monitor and optimise application performance, including server-side rendering (SSR) performance in Svelte Kit
- Identify and address bottlenecks and performance issues to ensure a smooth and responsive user experience
- Implement caching strategies and other optimisations to improve overall application performance
- Implement best practices for security, including data encryption, secure authentication mechanisms, and protection against common vulnerabilities
- Stay updated with industry standards and regulations related to blockchain technology, self-sovereign identity (or decentralised identity) and verifiable credentials
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing/mentoring
- Write and maintain comprehensive documentation for codebase, APIs, and system architecture
- Capture and generate ideas that may exist outside the engineering team's immediate view to drive our product's broad, revolutionary functionality
- Assess external open-source projects in the broader self-sovereign identity (SSI), Cosmos, other blockchain ecosystems to identify areas of collaboration
- Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and share best practices to promote knowledge sharing and professional growth within the team
- Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the engineering team
- You would typically work with other engineers in the development team and have the flexibility to choose frameworks/languages you are more comfortable with maintaining
- Overall adoption of the Creds.xyz product suite for our current and prospective partners
- Delivery of web services and optimisations improving the overall developer experience of Creds.xyz
- Consistently providing critical analysis on peers' code
- Demonstrating a commitment to open-sourcing code and contributing to the community
Application process
- Start: May 2024 onwards
Salary benchmarks
Our take
cheqd is building the network for digital credential businesses to incentivise all parties - the crucial piece neglected by companies adopting Self-Sovereign Identity. This is a crucial hurdle to moving from the current silos of data towards a world where data is controlled personally by individuals, while facilitating new business models.
It regards incentivised networks and incentives as central to verifiable credentials and decentralised identity succeeding in the commercial marketplace. By so doing, cheqd rewards everyone from network stewards and holders to issuers and verifiers, leveraging the great work by the Sovrin Foundation and their token initiative, forking from the original token codebase.
This approach helps give individuals back full control of their data and offers companies strong commercial incentives to embrace this new paradigm, including new revenue streams to enhance profitability. cheqd believes that commercial profitability is fundamental, but can't be prioritised to the detriment of privacy, sustainability, and inclusion.
Having been founded in February 2021, cheqd is growing quickly with a team of backers and advisors behind it. It's participating in and boosting the rapid growth in Self-Sovereign Identity/Veritable Claims globally, helping to revolutionise the industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2021
$2.6m
SEED
May 2021
$0.7m
SEED
Total funding: $3.3m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Fraser Edwards
(CEO)Having studied at Imperial, they worked for 6 years at Accenture where they led the WEF-backed Known Traveler Digital ID. In February 2021, they co-founded verim, and has served as CEO since then.
Ankur Banerjee
(CTO)They spent 6 years at Accenture on digital identity and blockchain, a year as Head of Engineering at IDWorks, and then 6 months as Senior Product Manager at R3 before co-founding verim as CTO.
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