Backend Jobs in Web3

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated engineer to help us build the verifiable Internet. As a core team member, you will gain ownership over our web products, as well as the ability to influence the creation, design, and execution of future products. 

About Nexus 

The Nexus Project is a scientific and engineering effort bringing truth to the field of computation. We’re enabling bringing to life a new form of compute: verifiable computation, powered by open science and open-source software so it can benefit everyone. Our work aims to bring to life decades of advancements in zero-knowledge cryptography, achieved by many scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, into a single software system.

Nexus raised $25M in Series A funding, co-led by Lightspeed and Pantera, with participation from Dragonfly, SV Angel and more. 

Our team consists of some of the world's top cryptographers, mathematicians, and engineers, all working together with one goal: to unite the world's computers and prove humanity's computations.

We are headquartered at the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and this role will be in-person, with the rest of the Nexus team.

Responsibilities

• Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members.

• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.

• Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs.

• Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience

• Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities.

• Consistently manage projects comprehensively, starting from gathering requirements and designing, to debugging and testing, and finally to release management and operational monitoring.

• Design, build, and maintain a large-scale production system on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability.

• Be able to build systems from the ground up, on a 0→1 fashion.

• Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development/Web3, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services.

• Mentored junior engineers

Nice to have

• Has previously been a Technical Lead

• Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems

• Degree in computer science

• Experience with Typescript

• Experience with GCP, AWS, and/or Azure

• Love for science and computation :)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous equity compensation

• Health insurance for employees and their dependents

• Lunch and dinner provided at the office

• Company-paid travel to events and conferences

We recognize the benefits of building a diverse and inclusive team and aspire to embed respect for all people and cultures.