Parity Technologies is hiring a

Web3 Internal Tools Developer (m/f/d)

About the position (or What you will do)

As Parity grows, we more and more often find ourselves in need of particular (usually rather small-scale) internal tools — and it's no longer feasible to just ask a first engineer careless enough to stick their head out to do the job.

So we're looking for someone who would take authority over a zoo of our internal tools and glue code: a service managing custom synchronisation between public Github and private repositories, a webapp to monitor licensing compliance in our repos, a webhook endpoint to submit a PR to our static website after the new software release is ready, and other small-to-midscale projects along these lines.

Currently most of such tools of ours are running on NodeJS, with occasional ingrainings of Go, Python, and sometimes even Rust. They do not always have tests, even if they should have. Monitoring and automated provisioning is not always set up — and it should be.

We need someone to join us to take care of that zoo — fix infrequent bugs, add features when required, rewrite code in a different language/technology/framework when reasonable. And integrations — integrations with other tools and APIs will be Your Thing; probably it won't fly if you don't like this kind of work.

This is "bring your own tools" sort of job — we won't mind you using any language or framework you like to get the job done (given you're proficient, and the tool is easy to maintain by someone who is not you). You would probably have to learn at least some basics of Rust, since we're mostly a Rust shop — but knowing Rust in advance is not in the job requirements.

We want you to be able to deliver without any "Manager" role giving you precise step-by-step instructions. We expect you to actively participate in identifying and questioning stakeholders, outlining project requirements, and coordinating delivering code with other teams.

We would like it if you will be able to develop at least some resemblance of UI/UX for the tools which need it. We will help you set up deployment and testing for the tools you own — but you should be at least aware of how and what happens there to not be blocked when something needs to be tweaked in that machinery.

Requirements:

• Ability to work autonomously to establish requirements
• Experience using no-code tools such as Airtable and Coda
• Experience as a full-stack developer with familiarity in languages like JavaScript, Python, and Bash

Nice-to-haves:

• Open source software background
• Some exposure to UI/UX development
• Experience with the Rust programming language
• Passionate about blockchain technologies and bringing a decentralized Web3 to the world

About Parity

The team at Parity builds core infrastructure to power a better internet. We do this by innovating in and fostering the open source ecosystem surrounding blockchain development, also known as Web 3.0.

Every day we interact with technologies controlled by a handful of large companies whose interests often conflict with our own. Despite that conflict, we still use their software either because many of the benefits seem to outweigh any perceived risk, we feel there is no choice, or there is no better alternative. As a result, we end up granting such companies access to our personal data which, in turn, gives them far-reaching control over our digital lives and in that, unprecedented influence over a multitude of globally impactful initiatives and innovations.

Parity Technologies is a team of the world’s premiere blockchain developers building industry-leading technologies that enable developers to create the next wave of better products and services that respect the freedom and data of individuals. You’ll join at a critical moment when the future of the decentralized web is being shaped, and perform an influential role in making a more equitable society for our future.

We primarily steward the Substrate ecosystem which includes Polkadot and Kusama, both of which are next-generation, sharded, multichain networks. Our flagship product, Substrate, is an open-source modular and extensible blockchain-building framework that allows rapid innovation and fast deployment of custom built blockchains. Substrate provides the core building blocks of blockchains built for deployment to Polkadot and Kusama. Our key programming language is Rust, and all of our work is open source.

Not a perfect match to our requirements? We're happy to receive your application anyways and hear how you think you can help us achieve our mission.

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