NEAR is hiring a

Web3 Front End Software Engineer

Job Description

Near foundation is looking for a Front end software engineer to join the Dev Labs team.

The frontend software engineer at Dev Labs works in a small cross-functional team within the NEAR Foundation to ship Foundation or NEAR ecosystem critical software projects. The nature of the projects can vary from serving demands of internal teams at the NEAR Foundation (such as Finance / Marketing), helping external parties successfully deliver NEAR Integrations, or ship open-source tools (middleware / decentralized applications) to benefit the great NEAR ecosystem.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Building frontend for a full-stack product;
• Collaborating with internal and external engineers and community members
• Participating in the on-call rotation together with other engineers

What We're Looking For:

• Ability to deliver web and mobile applications end to end
• The ability to solve all sorts of frontend engineering tasks
• Fluency in Typescript/Javascript and web standards
• Understanding of React (Next.js) practices (such as state management solutions, server-side rendering)
• Fluency in React, Vue, Svelte, or Elm libraries
• Experience with design systems and components
• 2+ years experience building production applications, libraries, APIs
• Experience and interest in building and documenting tools

We'd Love If You Have:

• Open source contributions and previous or continued involvement in open source communities
• Familiarity with Web3 development and related technologies (web3.js, ethers.js, etc)
• Familiarity with other crypto or blockchain technologies
• Experience working at a startup
• Experience with managing applications on cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• Strong communication and remote friendly working skills

We Value:

1. ECOSYSTEM-FIRST: always put the health and success of the ecosystem above any individual's interest.
2. OPENNESS: operate transparently and consistently share knowledge to build open communities.
3. PRAGMATISM OVER PERFECTION: find the right solution not the ideal solution and beat dogmatism by openly considering all ideas.
4. MAKE IT FEEL SIMPLE: strive to make the complex feel simple so the technology is accessible to all.
5. GROW CONSTANTLY: learn, improve and fail productively so the project and community are always becoming more effective.

About the NEAR Foundation

The NEAR Foundation is a nonprofit, non-beneficiary foundation based in Switzerland which supports community-driven innovation and the Open Web with a specific focus on the NEAR platform. The Foundation distributes grant funding into the NEAR ecosystem, coordinates governance among participants, educates people about the protocol and ensures that relationships among the community members are as strong and sustainable as the apps they build. It seeks to combine the inclusive care of a community-driven NGO with the at-scale effectiveness of a Silicon Valley startup.

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