Your future is NEAR

About Near One

Near One engineering team is supporting development of the infrastructure of Layer 1 Blockchain, NEAR Protocol. The focus is on building scalable, performant, and reliable infrastructure to actualize visions of NEAR Protocol.

We are growing our team and looking for a software engineer with experience building and maintaining cryptography projects. As the in-house expert on cryptography, you will initiate, implement, and lead a variety of projects in this area, including integrating the results of the research done by teams in the Near community into NEAR Protocol. Your work will have a major impact on the scalability and decentralization of NEAR Protocol.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Collaboration with a fully distributed team around the world.
• Architecture and implementation of a novel multi-party computation (MPC) protocol in Rust.
• Performance optimizations and scalability/reliability improvements of the MPC protocol.
• Open source community contribution by collaborating with external contributors on our codebase and participating in community events.

What We’re Looking For:

• Fluency with algorithms and data structures.
• Ability to write clean yet efficient code.
• Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design while not knowing all the details.
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism.
• Meticulousness to lay out priorities and methodically make progress towards the goal.
• Strong communication and remote friendly working skills.
• Experience with blockchains
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must.

We’d Love If You Have:

• Open source contributions and previous or continued involvement in open source communities
• Knowledge and experience with cryptography
• Experience with Rust
• Experience working at a startup

Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.