About the Company:  Shardeum is building a layer 1, EVM-based, linearly scalable, smart contract platform that provides low gas fees forever while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum aims to be a chain capable of onboarding over a billion people to the crypto revolution, while also democratizing accessibility to decentralization. Shardeum’s mission is supported by prominent Venture Capitalists in the blockchain space, and we are on track to become one of the most widely used and well known smart contract platforms in blockchain history.We encourage you to browse our website, Whitepaper, Discord and YouTube channel to learn more about the project. You can even try downloading our validator software and joining our Testnet. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Your talent and potential is what matters most to us. Shardeum is committed to creating an inclusive culture.About The Role: The Software Engineering team at Shardeum is responsible for delivering the Shardeum Mainnet, and developing the smart contract platform, the consensus layer and the protocol layer. We focus on building scalable, performant, secure and reliable software that can be downloaded by thousands of node operators to actualize the Shardeum network. We are in search of a highly talented, innovative Principal Blockchain Engineer that can take on a technical leadership role on highly complex, blockchain projects. If you enjoy solving complex computer science problems, are passionate about what you work on, are a perfectionist who wants to build things the right way, and are persistent about finishing what you started, then you're the kind of person we are looking for. You will be working with equally talented and innovative individuals with the goal of building incredible software with the potential to change the world. What You'll Be Doing:

Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic road maps for complex, Layer-1 blockchain projects. Manage individual projects, priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise. Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, coding standards and best blockchain basics. Contribute to the architecture and implementation of complex software components on the blockchain. Take on end-to-end ownership of critical software components related to our L1. Design and develop innovative new consensus and protocol software. Ensure performance optimization, and making scalability / reliability improvements to the software. Resolve issues, debugging errors and fixing code to improve the reliability and security of Shardeum software components. The tech stack you will be using is: Nodejs, TypeScript, SQLite, Postgres, React and Vuejs. The development environment will be: Linux, Git, AWS, Docker and VS Code.

What We're Looking

Extensive experience designing, implementing and maintaining complex blockchain components. You know what high quality code looks like and know how to foster an environment that creates it. Fluency with algorithms and data structures. The ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies. The ability to write clean yet efficient code. The Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design, even in an often ambiguous environment. Self motivated to set priorities and methodically make progress toward goals. The ability to communicate effectively and convey your ideas when discussing technical topics with team members. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

We'd Love If You Have:

Experience working on all levels of a Layer 1 blockchain. Experience with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems. Experience with consensus protocols and other blockchains. Experience with Node.js and TypeScript, or languages like C, C++, Rust or GO. Experience writing a smart contract on a blockchain. Experience running a node in a blockchain network. Read the Bitcoin and Ethereum white papers.

We are building the infrastructure for Web 3.0. We are building the infrastructure for Web 3.0. 

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The Opportunity

As a Frontend Engineer on the Nascent engineering team, you will play a critical role in designing and building the user interfaces that power our trading platform. From creating elegant, high-performance UI in React to collaborating across the stack, you’ll help shape products that enable our team to move fast and operate at their best. You’ll contribute to a lean, agile development team—owning components end to end, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through creative solutions and sharp execution.

You will thrive in this role if you’re a resourceful builder who loves solving complex challenges and turning ideas into intuitive, high-impact interfaces. You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, and you move fluidly between starting bold new projects and refining existing ones. You’re excited by the future of crypto and trading, supercharge your workflows with LLM tools, and care deeply about both speed and quality. If you’re curious, adaptable, and ready to help shape the next phase of our platform, we’d love to work with you.

Responsibilities

• Design and build world-class UI for the next phase of our trading platform, enabling our team to do their best work
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing
• Be an integral contributor to a lean agile development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance
• Operate independently and in unison with a team to deliver code updates
• Contribute creative ideas and novel approaches to product and engineering challenges, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.

About you

• You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and find real joy in providing solutions to complex problems.
• You enjoy connecting the dots between teams, valuing strong communication and collaboration.
• You are curious about the future of crypto, trading and the financial world as a whole.
• You love using LLM tools in your daily workflows.
• You are as excited by starting a project as completing, maintaining, and continually optimizing it.
• You are resourceful and can toe the line between moving fast and breaking things and moving methodically to get things right the first time.
• You are extremely agile and have a strong ability to adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
• You are an avid learner and always keeping on top of the latest technologies.

Preferred experience

• 2-5 years of experience in Front-end development, ideally using React, Angular or VueJS. Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
• Previous experience in creating visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces, ideally for complex financial applications.
• UX Design Skills with experience in tooling such as InVision, Figma, Balsamiq.
• Have built trading and/or financial applications in the past (through experience, hobby or project work).

About Nascent…

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 100+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Seek and speak truth
• Own your shit.

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote and distributed working environment
• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave & supported return to work
• Home office setup and stipend or coworking space and wellness stipend
• Retirement plan matching contributions
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.