StripChain is looking for a Backend Engineer to join their team on a full time basis to lead the design and the protocol into production and maintain the distributed system and our architecture to welcome a new era of interoperability and architecture for building dapps.

This role is ideal for a proactive problem solver with a penchant for deep technical challenges, strong communication skills, and a builder mentality.

You’ll be helping contribute to a cutting-edge distributed system, navigating nuanced trade-offs between latency, fault tolerance, and incentives.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to the development and scaling of StripChain, specifically the StripVM, responsible for connecting different blockchains and for managing intents.
• Help launch and maintain our blockchain built on the arbitrum orbit chain.
• Develop and refine networking layers and P2P protocols to ensure high performance and reliability for our stripVM
• Maintain and enhance protocol services.
• Help build and integrate peripheral products in the ecosystem.
• Take charge of protocol documentation in the StripChain ecosystem.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code that meets production-grade standards.
• Help write APIs and SDKs as we need.
• Give hands with the smart contract development and extra tools creation etc.

Who You Are

• 4-10 years of hands-on experience in building production-grade distributed systems, skilled in Go.
• Proven track record in designing scalable, high-throughput architectures.
• Extensive experience in end-to-end testing of consensus or distributed system protocols.
• Deep understanding of fault-tolerant systems, including Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) and other relevant models.
• Capable of independently leading projects and unifying cross-functional teams through exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
• Need to be loyal, dedicated, kind, patient.

Nice to have:

• Very strong blockchain fundamentals and can pick up new technologies and ecosystem fast
• Worked with Solidity or other smart contract languages.
• Experience in working with MPC libraries - do highlight in your application, if you do.

Details that matter

• Significantly above market rate equity compensation package
• Unlimited PTO with a high level of freedom and autonomy for your work
• $3000 Yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals
• Work alongside the brightest minds in the crypto space
• Remote working - work from anywhere in the world
• Paid travel - 2 x team on-site in different parts of the world per year plus periodic travel to events

At StripChain, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.