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About Status Network

Status Network is a forward-looking zkEVM L2 rollup on Ethereum tailored for social applications and seamless access to DeFi yield opportunities for everyone. Status Network is dedicated to providing an open playground for communities to build on and thrive, while also incentivising liquidity thanks to a native yield market. We are deeply committed to decentralisation, with a focus on minimising censorship risks and preserving the right to privacy.

Status Network is tightly integrated within the broader IFT ecosystem. The IFT is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, collaborative and open internet, which includes the Status app.

Status Network is set to become a settlement layer for these different protocols and social applications, offering the most seamless and open social infrastructure to build truly onchain organisations. Status Network will bring direct utility to the SNT token with upgraded tokenomics taking into account sequencer revenues.

The role

The L2 Lead Developer at Status Network will be responsible for the comprehensive deployment and ongoing operation of this new zkEVM L2 rollup. This role includes full oversight of the infrastructure setup in collaboration with a RaaS (Rollup as a Service) provider and other infrastructure partners. The Lead Developer will manage the integration of essential third-party partners required for the blockchain's operation, including but not limited to bridges, RPC endpoint providers, developers tooling, blockchain indexers and explorers, and fiat-to-crypto gateways, with a focus on delivering the smoothest developer experience.

This position offers a unique opportunity to lead the engineering efforts for the launch and subsequent growth of a groundbreaking zk L2 rollup. You will be at the forefront of developing a platform that not only supports decentralised applications but also integrates social and financial functionalities deeply within its architecture, paving the way for a new era of onchain social interaction and economic exchange.

If you are driven by innovation in blockchain technology, eager to lead a cutting-edge project, and passionate about decentralisation and privacy, this role will provide you with the perfect platform to make a significant impact.

Key responsibilities:

• Spearhead the implementation, launch, and ongoing development of a new zkEVM L2 rollup on Ethereum.
• Oversee the entire infrastructure for the L2 rollup, collaborating with our RaaS and infra providers to ensure high reliability and performance.
• Manage technical integrations with external third-party providers as well as internal teams, including adapting Nimbus client software for the rollup and working with the Status App client teams for application integration.
• Collaborate on the codebase of our L2 stack partner to innovate and enhance the security and performance of our zkEVM rollup stack.
• Drive the development process of Status Network by establishing rigorous testing protocols on testnets and mainnet, implementing best practices in coding, security, and system design, and coordinating deployment processes to ensure the rollup's integrity and availability at launch.
• Engage with the community and developers through outreach, documentation, and support to encourage adoption and feedback for continuous improvement.
• Lead, mentor, and expand our team of developers and engineers, promoting a culture of innovation and collaboration.

You will ideally have:

• Strong experience in the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly with L2 solutions like zkEVM rollups.
• Advanced knowledge of Solidity programming and a deep understanding of blockchain mechanics.
• Proven track record of leading software development teams, with experience successfully managing cross-functional teams.
• History of contributing to or leading open-source projects.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure management, especially with AWS, including configuring and managing scalable and secure environments suitable for blockchain applications
• Proficient in setting up and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes, especially in the context of open-source software.
• Experience with implementing and managing decentralised and distributed systems, demonstrating a robust understanding of the challenges and solutions specific to these environments.
  A hands-on approach and technical proficiency in troubleshooting, optimising, and innovating blockchain solutions under various constraint
  Experience with various blockchain infrastructures and applications, including node operation, blockchain explorer integration, DeFi and NFT lending protocols, and cross-chain bridge mechanisms.
• Understanding of other blockchain and cryptographic technologies, including consensus algorithms, DeFi smart contract security, and network protocols.
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.app/manifesto

Bonus points:

• Degen
• Comfort with remote and asynchronous work environments
• A passionate advocate for the Ethereum community and the broader ethos of open-source contribution
• Enthusiasm for decentralisation and a personal drive to promote censorship resistance within the crypto space

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Hiring process:

• Interview with our People Ops team
• Interview with IFT Team Member
• Interview with IFT Team Member
• Interview with Program Lead

Compensation

The expected compensation range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process). We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

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As our DevOps Engineer, you will be helping us build and maintain blockchain networks and protocols. You will work on improving our current infrastructure including security, automation, and monitoring among other things. You will also have the chance to dive deep into new blockchain protocols, run testnets, build secure and scalable infra and maintain it.

What will you do?

• Build secure and reliable infrastructure to monitor, detect and mitigate performance and security issues
• System administration activities for Linux servers, which includes routine, proactive daily management of the health, stability, and availability of system infrastructure
• Create and maintain system procedural and technical documentation
• Stay up to date and build on peer-to-peer networking security best practices
• Create, maintain and communicate threat models + risk assessments for all systems we operate

What excites us about you?

• You have experience as DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure engineer
• You have the ability to program in one or more languages like Python, GoLang, Bash or Javascript
• You have experience managing server infrastructures with high availability requirements
• You had designed secure networks, systems, and application architectures
• You had set up and maintained software in both data centers and cloud environments
• You have a deep understanding of sockets, full networking stack, and Linux security
• You possess the knowledge of building automation and CI/CD processes and tools
• You are experienced with Docker, Kubernetes, and other cloud deployment technologies
• You have flexibility, teamwork, and you are comfortable with ambiguity, able to take charge and get things done despite the unknowns

What will be great to have?

• You have an understanding of the blockchain space and blockchain technology
• You possess knowledge of cryptography and security best practices
• You have contributions to open source communities

If those describe you, this is the right opportunity for you!

Why are we awesome you ask?

We are truly at the forefront of the crypto ecosystem as maintainers of the infrastructure layer of blockchain networks! We practice the crypto team mentality by assembling a truly global and diverse team.

We collectively represent more than 12 different countries and are united in a single mission: building out the future of decentralization. Crypto is here to stay, having introduced novel ideas such as DeFi, NFTs and DAOs. At the core of all this are teams like us working relentlessly to build the necessary tools and applications that help run and secure blockchains.

Here are some other reasons you should join us:

• We have employees from over 10 countries across the globe, and you will be able to meet interesting people from different backgrounds and cultures. Distributed and remote work is baked into our culture.
• We are one of the top staking service providers with over $3B of assets staked across our validators. We actively explore and develop new products related to staking. You will work on high-impact engineering projects building exciting new products in a startup environment.
• We have a capable and passionate team. You will find teammates who are power DeFi users, intense NFT collectors, Bitcoin & Ethereum knowledge nerds, etc. You can learn and debate everything on crypto with our teammates.
• We are not backed by VC funding, and we are already profitable. Our financial independence means that we can make decisions independent of VCs, and we prioritize our ideals of decentralization, user sovereignty, and user privacy over simply making a profit. It also means that, unlike most other startups, stakefish can provide you with a stable low-risk employment opportunity without fundraising concerns.

We are seeking a talented mid-level frontend developer to join our growing web3 engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the user interfaces for our decentralized applications, leveraging the latest web3 technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop modern, responsive, and user-friendly web interfaces using React, Viem, and Wagmi.
• Integrate with blockchain networks and web3 protocols using libraries like Ethers.js.
• Implement state management solutions and handle asynchronous data fetching with GraphQL.
• Collaborate with the design team to translate designs into functional UI components.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest web3 trends and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of experience in frontend web development.
• Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of React and its ecosystem (e.g., Redux, React Router).
• Experience with web3 technologies, including Ethereum, decentralized applications, and blockchain concepts.
• Familiarity with Viem, Wagmi, and Vercel.
• Ability to work with version control systems like GitHub.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Good communication and collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with GraphQL and its integration with React.
• Understanding of server-side rendering and static site generation.
• Knowledge of web security best practices.
• Familiarity with Solidity and smart contract development.

About the Role

You’ll be at the ground floor of scaling Tensor for the next 1 million traders and building the most sophisticated trading infrastructure & platform for NFTs in the world.

You will:

• Ship new products for NFT traders: faster data, more capital efficiency, advanced order types
• Optimize and scale our data pipelines to handle O(1-10K) transactions/second at peak
• Own projects end-to-end: from front-end to backend APIs to data pipelines

You are:

• Excited about web3/crypto/NFTs. We really cannot overstate this - you’ll be joining a team of web3 nerds
• A generalist with 3+ years of experience working on large-scale, data-intensive apps
• Experienced with React, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch and/or Docker (if you have experience with other modern stacks that’s totally fine too, as long as you’re a fast learner!)
• Proficient in at least one low-level language (ideally Rust or Go)

Bonus points for:

• Experience scaling data-rich consumer products, APIs & trading infrastructure to millions of users and O(terabytes) data
• Experience building real-time pipelines on AWS (Kafka, Dynamo, SQS, RDS) and services on Kubernetes
• Experience optimizing React apps to handle hundreds of renders per minute
• Strong fundamentals in statistics, math, or quantitative finance
• Good intuition on when to move fast/break things vs when to move carefully

What you’ll get:

• Generous ownership & stake in the company. We’re looking for owners 🤝
• A fast-paced, no-BS environment
• Flexible working hours & hybrid schedule
• Top-of-the-line M3 Macbook Pro and peripherals

Our stack is Rust (protocol) / TypeScript (back-end & front-end), React/NextJS, AWS, Kubernetes and a bunch of distributed data systems (Kafka, RDS/Postgres, ElasticSearch).

Location

We’re remote-first. The founding team is in Toronto, and you’re welcome to join us there, but you don’t have to.

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Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.

About Waku

We are building Waku (Waku.org) as a public good infrastructure. Waku is the messaging layer of Web3.

It is a decentralized, censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving communication network that enables anyone to send and receive messages without worrying about surveillance or deplatforming.

We are developing 3 open source implementations of Waku:

• Nwaku: the reference implementation and service node
• Js-waku: for the browser
• Go-waku: to integrate as a library in native applications

We are enabling Ethereum builders to create new projects with a fully decentralized architecture, think dApp to Wallet notifications, NFT marketplaces, censorship-resistant chat, layer-2 decentralization and more.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement and document Waku nim libraries and node (nwaku)
• Collaborate and support the Research team with the implementation of new protocols
• Investigate and fix issues in nwaku and upstream libraries such as nim-libp2p
• Maintain an array of bindings and wrappers over the nim library to enable usage of Waku in other languages (Rust, NodeJS, Golang)
• Optimize nwaku and upstream libraries for usage on various environments (VPS, laptop, mobile, Raspberry Pi)
• Support dApp developers in using nwaku and other Waku libraries/bindings

You ideally will have:

• At least 2 years of experience in low-level or statically typed languages (C, C++, Rust or Go)
• Experience building applications with complex logic, cutting edge technology or applied research, including for network environments
• Ability to learn new concepts and technologies quickly; you are a polyglot
• You have a deep interest for blockchain and decentralized technologies and understand how they work

Bonus points:

• You are already familiar with the Ethereum community or you are in Web3 or blockchain development
• You have experience with any libp2p implementations
• You have experience with maintaining bindings, especially in a mobile or embedded context
• You have experience working for a remote only open source organization

Hiring process:

1. Intro call with PeopleOps (30 minutes)
2. Interview (technical) with nwaku team member (1h)
3. Pair programming session with a nwaku team member (1h)
4. Final interview with Waku Lead (45minutes to 1h)

Compensation:

The expected compensation for this role is up to $100,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process). We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.

About Waku

We are building Waku (Waku.org) as a public good infrastructure. Waku is the messaging layer of Web3.

It is a decentralized, censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving communication network that enables anyone to send and receive messages without worrying about surveillance or deplatforming.

We are developing 3 open source implementations of Waku:

• Nwaku: the reference implementation and service node
• Js-waku: for the browser
• Go-waku: to integrate as a library in native applications

We are enabling Ethereum builders to create new projects with a fully decentralized architecture, think dApp to Wallet notifications, NFT marketplaces, censorship-resistant chat, layer-2 decentralization and more.

Waku enables a variety of complex use cases and applications. To facilitate the adoption of Waku, you will design and implement application protocols to provide to dapp developers as off-the-shelf SDKs.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, design and enhance secure and reliable chat protocols over Waku, a gossipsub-based decentralized communication network.
• Collaborate with researchers using protocol RFCs as a medium, implement protocol PoCs, then proceed with integration in the main library, and collaborate with QA for extensive testing.
• Liaise with internal consumers of the chat library, understand usage and requirements and UX impacts of design, support with any issue encountered.
• Liaise with Waku protocol engineers to report bugs, stay informed of new functionalities and provide feedback on Waku protocols and implementations.
• Enable the testing of the existing chat functionalities (present in a larger library), by building binaries that can be used for test automation and extract said functionalities in a separate library.

You ideally will have

• Have experience building applications with complex logic, cutting-edge technology or applied research.
• Experience with Golang or other system/backend languages such as C/C++/C#/Java/Rust, etc.
• Have experience building and designing instant messaging and chat protocols that include cryptography such as end-to-end encryption.
• Have a deep interest in blockchain and decentralized technologies and understand how they work.

Bonus points if

• You are already familiar with the Ethereum community
• You have experience working for an open source organization
• You have experience working async

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Hiring Process

• Intro call with Talent
• Pair Programming session
• Interview with Waku Lead
• Interview with Status Mobile Lead & Waku SDK Lead

Compensation

The expected compensation range for this role is $70,000 - $85,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process).

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.