Logos
Nim Developer (Nim Tooling)
Job Summary
This role involves contributing to the development and maintenance of Nim's ecosystem, including tools like Nimble and the Nim language server, to support IFT projects. The candidate will work closely with project teams to fix bugs, develop features, and enhance developer tooling. Strong experience with Nim, system programming languages, and language tooling is essential. The position emphasizes collaboration, problem-solving, and improving the Nim ecosystem within an open-source context.
Required Skills
Benefits
Job Description
Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.
About Vac
Vac builds public good protocols for the decentralized web. We do applied research based on which we build protocols, libraries and publications.
Vac’s R&D Service Units are integral to supporting IFT projects by researching and developing base components and secure, unbiased protocols.
With the IFT’s extensive use of the Nim ecosystem, the Vac Nim Service Unit focuses on the development and maintenance of Nim tooling and core libraries essential for IFT projects.
The Nim unit works on critical tools in the Nim ecosystem, including the Nim compiler, Nimble (package manager), and nim-suggest, ensuring they are efficient, reliable, and up-to-date.
The Nim unit further plans to maintain core libraries developed by IFT, such as Chronos.
The mandate of the Nim unit also includes providing support to IFT projects regarding the use of Nim, identifying and addressing specific project needs and demands related to the Nim ecosystem.
The role
We’re looking for a skilled Nim developer to help drive the development and maintenance of Nimble, the Nim language server, and core Nim libraries across a range of IFT projects.
In this role, you’ll work closely with project teams to consolidate, report, and resolve Nim-related issues and bugs, while also contributing to the ongoing improvement of developer tooling and the Nim ecosystem.
The ideal candidate has strong experience with Nim, a solid grasp of language tooling and core programming concepts, and enjoys collaborating across teams to deliver robust solutions.
If you’re passionate about open-source development, enjoy tackling complex technical challenges, and want to help shape the future of Nim at IFT, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities
- Contribute to the ongoing development and maintenance of Nimble, the official package manager for Nim, ensuring robust dependency management and a smooth developer experience.
- Address feature requests, resolve bugs, and improve documentation for Nimble to support the Nim ecosystem.
- Develop, maintain, and extend the Nim language server to improve IDE integration, code completion, error diagnostics, and overall tooling for Nim developers.
- Help maintain and evolve Nim core libraries.
- Collaborate with users and contributors to identify and implement enhancements that streamline the developer workflow
- Monitor, collect, and consolidate Nim-related issues and bugs arising in various IFT projects, and either report or directly address and resolve these issues as appropriate.
- Act as a liaison between IFT project teams and the Nim core development community, ensuring that feedback and requirements are clearly communicated and tracked.
You ideally will have
- Proficiency in Nim programming language, with hands-on experience developing and maintaining Nim projects.
- Experience with C, C++, Rust, or similar, especially in systems or embedded programming contexts.
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with concepts such as parsing, lexing, and semantic analysis, especially as they relate to compilers or language tooling.
- Familiarity with Nim’s standard library and ecosystem, including asynchronous programming, networking, and multi-threaded programming.
- Experience maintaining or contributing to package managers or similar developer tooling (e.g., Nimble).
- Understanding of language server protocols and experience working with or developing language servers.
- Proficiency in Git.
- Strong debugging and testing skills, with the ability to identify, report, and resolve issues across multiple projects.
- Effective communication skills for collaborating across teams and reporting on bugs and issues.
- Problem-solving ability and attention to detail
Bonus points
- Experience working for an open-source organization.
- Knowledge of type theory and programming language foundations.
- Experience with peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain, or cryptography.
- Background in IDE tooling, language tooling, or developer experience improvements
Hiring process
- Interview with our POps team
- Interview with team member from the Vac team
- Pair programming with team member from the Vac Nim unit
- Interview with Vac team lead
Compensation
The expected compensation range for this role is $100,000 - $150,000 USD annually (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process). We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.
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