Senior Software Engineer

Pagoda is shepherding a future where NEAR becomes the blockchain operating system.

Overview

Pagoda Solutions team is looking for a senior software engineer to work on ecosystem critical features and solutions. You will be working through the whole range of NEAR Protocol stack to find opportunities for critical improvements and features that have a huge impact on the growth of the ecosystem. You will fully own various components and drive their implementation from beginning to end.

What you will do

• Discover ecosystem critical feature needs, design and implement them.
• Work with internal and external product managers, technical stakeholders to gather feedback and work with internal teams to deliver product/protocol improvements.
• Implement features that are important to the success of external and internal stakeholders.
• Keep a close eye on innovations on web3 space, gather insights and implement critical features to enable web3 developers on NEAR Protocol.
• Communication and collaboration with a fully distributed team.

Requirements

• Ability to quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts.
• Experience or ability to work with systems-level languages, Rust is preferred, but Go and C would also be eligible.
• Great communicator and remain calm under pressure or when juggling multiple priorities.
• Being comfortable with diving into multiple parts of a technology stack and quickly navigating through it.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must

Nice to have

• Familiarity with cryptography
• An understanding of rollups and layer 2 technologies
• Familiarity with distributed systems and p2p networks
• Experience working at a startup;
• Prior experience with blockchain technologies

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible Annual Leave / PTO with an encouraged 20 day per year minimum
• Paid Holiday Week: the last week of the year
• Paid Wellness Week: the first week of July
• $2,000 Yearly Continued Education Reimbursement
• $2,000 Home Office Setup Reimbursement
• Mental Health Support and access to licensed therapists

Hiring process

• Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes)
• Meet with the Hiring Manager (30-45 minutes)
• Technical Interviews (3 x 60 minutes)
• Pagoda Values Interview (30 to 45 minutes)