Hiro
Blockchain Engineer
Job Summary
The role involves building and maintaining developer tools integrated with the Stacks Blockchain, requiring extensive experience in blockchain development, cryptography, and distributed systems. The engineer will contribute to the development, testing, and security of blockchain supporting tools using Rust. Collaboration with cross-functional teams on new features and ensuring high standards of security and performance are key focus areas. The position offers a competitive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth in a rapidly scaling startup environment.
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Job Description
About the Opportunity
Hiro is looking for a passionate and collaborative Blockchain Engineer to build and maintain developer tools integrated with the Stacks Blockchain. You'll collaborate with a team and work independently to architect and deliver feature upgrades and improvements. In this role, you will build critical features for our users. You must be comfortable working in diverse development ecosystems and have worked independently in a rapidly scaling startup. OSS experience is preferred as many of our tools leverage open source licensing.
What You’ll Do:
- Contribute to the development, maintenance, and testing of developer tools.
- Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to meet the security and performance requirements
- Design and implement blockchain supporting tools and utilities(e.g., CLI client, tools for exploring the blockchain, monitoring, benchmarking or debugging tools)
- Collaborate with other teams on new product features that have a dependency on the Stacks blockchain(e.g. developer tooling, UX tooling, 3rd party integrations etc)
What We’re Looking For:
- 5-10 years of experience in software engineering with experience in building and shipping products.
- 5+ years of hands on experience in a production environment with one or more of: public blockchains; consensus protocols; large-scale distributed systems; high availability, and real-time systems; applied cryptography; compilers; any other equivalent / adjacent technology
- Prior experience with a Production grade Blockchain is necessary
- Deep proficiency in Rust, including advanced features like ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, concurrency, and unsafe code.
- Experience implementing cryptographic primitives and protocols in Rust.
- Experience working on and designing tests for long-running projects
We’d Also Like to See:
- Experience testing distributed systems for behaviors in the presence of faults, network partitions, and network delays
- Experience building highly secure software, including threat modeling, secure coding practices, and vulnerability assessment.
- Working knowledge of the limitations and complexities involved in peer-to-peer systems
- Working knowledge of programming language interpreters, compilers, and static analysis
- Experience in research and development, building blockchain/distributed systems
What we’ll offer:
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- Salary Range (regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $160,000 - $200,000.
- Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens--STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network
- $500/mo co-working space reimbursement
- $1,200/yr budget for learning and development stipend
- $1000/yr of charity donation matching to an organization of your choosing
- Daily Lunch Reimbursement(even if you’re remote!)
- Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need
- Family-Friendly Health Benefits
- Free Life and Disability Insurance
- Health and dependent care(FSA)
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- 401k with 3% match
Please note that benefits vary by country, the ones shown above are for our full time U.S. based employees. Benefit information for non-US based positions will be provided to individuals who interview for those roles.
Hiro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and deeply cares about building a diverse team. Hiro is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by law.
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