Hiro
Software Engineer, DevTools
Job Summary
Hiro is seeking a seasoned engineer to develop and maintain their core developer tools, including libraries and SDKs, with a focus on blockchain support and security. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to create features that enhance the Stacks blockchain ecosystem and support developers through monitoring, testing, and utility tools. Candidates should have at least 5 years of software engineering experience, proficiency in languages like TypeScript, C/C++, or Rust, and familiarity with blockchain and distributed systems. This fully remote position offers a range of benefits, including health coverage, equity, stipends, and flexible vacation policies.
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Job Description
At Hiro, we build developer tools that bring Web3 to Bitcoin. Our suite of tools unlocks the full potential of Bitcoin through smart contracts, digital assets, and decentralized applications. With Hiro tools, developers can test and deploy smart contracts, spin up nodes and other server-side resources for scaling, and more. Building on Bitcoin is hard. Hiro's developer tools make it easier. We’re very proud to say that Hiro won 4 Built In’s Best Places to Work awards, including U.S. Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Places to Work, and New York Best Startups to Work For!
Hiro is funded and backed by more than $75 million from Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Naval Ravikant, and others.
About the Opportunity
Hiro seeks a seasoned engineer to contribute to the development of our core products, including developer tools, libraries, and SDKs. In this fully remote role, you will collaborate with a talented team and operate autonomously to design and implement essential features that serve our community. Join us at a rapidly growing startup, where you'll engage with a diverse and open-source technology stack alongside a globally distributed team.
What You’ll Do:
- Contribute to the development, maintenance, and testing of our developer tools.
- Develop and maintain Clarinet and Chainhook.
- Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing to meet 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)
- Collaborate with other teams on new product features for the Stacks blockchain (e.g. developer tooling, UX tooling, 3rd party integrations etc)
- Support developers on Discord, communicate about product releases
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience of building and shipping products
- Strong, demonstrated experience in engineering fundamentals: scalability, architecture, refactoring, algorithms, testing, and code versioning.
- Expertise in at least one of: Typescript, C/C++, or Rust
- Experience building out SDKs and libraries
We’d Also Like to See:
- Working knowledge of blockchain (e.g. Clarity or Solidity), distributed systems, peer-to-peer systems, decentralization
- Experience testing distributed systems for behaviors in the presence of faults, network partitions, and network delays
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana
- Experience working on open source software
We’d love to hear from you even if you don’t have experience or interest in every bullet.
What we’ll offer:
- Salary Range (regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $150,000 - $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 stipend for learning and development
- $1,000/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. Due to legal and logistical constraints, we are currently only able to hire candidates residing in the United States, Canada, and select countries in the EU.
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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