Hi,
Hope you are doing fine.
We have a 6 months contract opportunity for Blockchain Engineer role (REMOTE).
Any work authorization (USC/GC/H1-B/TN/Canadian) are welcome to apply.
Title of role: Blockchain Engineer
Location preference/Time zone: EST- North America REMOTE
Contract Duration: 6-12 months
Rate:- $DOE
Ideal start date: ASAP
Client: Cygnet Infotech
Project details: Open source blockchain project.
Must have skills: Kafka, Golang, Javascript, nodejs, React frontend, w/ Next.js - GraphQL APIs - Kafka event bus
Nice to have skills: Crypto experience
Internal or external pair programming: Internal
An ideal candidate must be:
- Highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual
- Security minded
- Self-starter, reliable and dependable
- Interested in DeFi and the cryptocurrencies ecosystem
- Product oriented
- Flexible with urgent and unforeseen issues
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Early contributor to the further expansion into the DeFi ecosystem
- Expanding upon and maintaining WBTC’s tokenization engine and internal tooling
- Participate in development of WBTC on new blockchains
- Own the expansion and maintenance of the wbtc.network website
- Responsible for systems uptime and alerting for support personnel
- Work closely with the Product Manager to resolve any blockers that hinder daily operations
Requirements
- 3+ years of Golang, Rust, Javascript, C++ or Java on the server-side
- MUST HAVE SKILLS : Kafka, Golang, Javascript, nodejs, React frontend, w/ Next.js - GraphQL APIs - Kafka event bus
- Having worked with some NodeJS required. Heavy experience is a plus
- Strong experience with taking a set of requirements and implementing them fully with minimal guidance
- Experience with RESTful programming conventions
- Experience with ORMs
- Strong experience with SQL/NoSQL
- A depth of knowledge and implementation experience
Nice to have Skills:
- Cryptocurrency experience (any of the following):
- BTC - Operational knowledge of Bitcoin sending and receiving
- ETH - Solidity experience. Understanding the current market sentiment with DeFi
- Others - Any API interaction or node-level interaction
- Front-end experience:
- Exposure to a front-end framework (React, Angular)
- Heavy Javascript
- Experience in finance and financial products
- Containers and orchestration:
- Containerized environment experience - Docker compose, Gitlab CI, Kubernetes
- CI/CD environments - Jenkins, drone, ArgoCD
- OpenAPI specification a plus