[135] Golang Engineer
Altoros, Argentina

Protofire is a dedicated sub-unit of Altoros, specialized in consultancy and development services around Blockchain technology.

As great enthusiasts and active contributors to the open-source blockchain communities we help builders and providers of decentralized infrastructure, protocols and applications, to bootstrap the demand and supply sides of their markets, and accelerate mass adoption.

We help startups with protocol amp; smart contract engineering, high-performance trusted data feeds (oracles), and awesome developer tools (SDKs/APIs).

Since we started in 2016 we’ve had a chance to contribute to the development of many top projects in the blockchain ecosystem, including Maker, Chainlink, Tezos, Gnosis, Kyber Network, The Graph, Filecoin, Synthetix, Avalanche and more. Apart from that we are running one of the biggest indexer nodes in the Graph Network, participating as bridge relayers and validators helping projects and networks to further decentralise their infrastructure.

We are now looking to hire a Golang Engineer who wants to learn and master the latest research concerning distributed systems, cryptography, blockchains, game theory, consensus algorithms, and decentralized applications. You will be given a high level of autonomy/ownership over your projects, the opportunity to expand your scope of knowledge, and the chance to help build the decentralized infrastructure of the future.

How you will make an impact

• Develop and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable software that will change the way smart contracts function at a fundamental level.
• Designing and implementing new features within the products such as trust minimized off-chain computation, cryptocurrency staking, the aggregation of external data in various blockchain environments, and many more problems.
• Thinking creatively about attack vectors, possible failures, and disaster scenarios, modeling them in reproducible test environments, and developing fixes.
• Modeling and developing recovery behaviors
• Implementing resilient distributed systems to achieve extremely high reliability in a variety of blockchain environments

What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of professional software development
• Recent proven experience using Golang, Typescript, Solidity, Postgres, Terraform, AWS
• Experience with test-driven development and the use of testing frameworks
• Experience developing complex web applications/services and backend APIs
• Knowledge of systems design concepts
• Experience with distributed systems and/or container orchestration
• Strong communication skills, specifically giving/receiving constructive feedback in a collaborative setting
• Advanced level of English
• Significant experience working with distributed teams

*This is a remote position, candidates will need to overlap hours with Argentina/CET/PST time zones*

Benefits and perks of working with us

• Competitive salary + tokens based on your contributions to the projects
• 3 weeks of vacation
• Flexible working hours
• One time bonus for acquiring office supplies/devices to support home office
• A friendly close-knit team

We come from different backgrounds but loving what we do is what makes us unique and brings us together. We thrive by building meaningful relationships with respect, equality, and integrity.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities. Based on this premise, all applicants are considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

Interested? Apply today!

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