Senior Backend Engineer, Nexus

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AWS
TypeScript
GCP
Azure
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Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area
Nexus

Verifiable computing, powered by zero-knowledge proofs

Open for applications

Nexus

Verifiable computing, powered by zero-knowledge proofs

1-20 employees

B2BSecuritySaaSCyber Security

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Equity

AWS
TypeScript
GCP
Azure
Keep
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

1-20 employees

B2BSecuritySaaSCyber Security

Company mission

To build the infrastructure for a verifiable world.

Role

Who you are

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities
  • Consistently manage projects comprehensively, starting from gathering requirements and designing, to debugging and testing, and finally to release management and operational monitoring
  • Design, build, and maintain a large-scale production system on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability
  • Be able to build systems from the ground up, on a 0→1 fashion
  • Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development/Web3, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services
  • Mentored junior engineers

Desirable

  • Has previously been a Technical Lead
  • Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
  • Degree in computer science
  • Experience with Typescript
  • Experience with GCP, AWS, and/or Azure
  • Love for science and computation :)

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated engineer to help us build the verifiable Internet. As a core team member, you will gain ownership over our web products, as well as the ability to influence the creation, design, and execution of future products
  • Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members
  • Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end
  • Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs
  • Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization

Our take

Nexus Labs is creating zero knowledge-powered scaling and privacy tools to support the rapidly changing digital AI landscape. Its solutions include cybersecurity and cloud computing support, all focused on Nexus Labs Nexus Project - a scientific and engineering scheme to enable verifiable computation at internet scale.

This ambitious project has attracted impressive funding from top Silicon Valley Investors. No surprise, considering the far-reaching motive of Nexus Labs: to bring about a new verifiable internet. The Nexus Project is attempting to draw on cryptography, mathematics and computer science to create a general-purpose system for verifiable computation.

There have already been several versions of the Nexus zkVM, and its funding is being channelled into improving its capabilities. The company’s work is cut out for it, but early interest from investors suggests that it will continue to grow.

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Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jun 2024

$25m

SERIES A

Dec 2022

$2.2m

SEED

Total funding: $27.2m

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Previously a Software Engineer Intern at Google and Stanford University's Dawn AI Lab. Also a Bronze Medallist at Tel Aviv University's International Physics Olympiad.

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