NEAR is hiring a

Web3 Technical Leader, Explorer

NEAR Protocol is a developer-first blockchain that emphasizes convenience and speed of development on the NEAR platform while minimizing the entrance barrier for developers coming from the blockchain ecosystem, as well as regular web and mobile development space.

We are looking for a productive, meticulous, and empathetic leader who loves working in an energetic and free-thinking environment, feels comfortable with challenging technical problems, and most importantly who shares with us the same desire to make the web free again.

The Explorer team is looking for a person to lead the work on our main dashboard -- https://explorer.near.org/ . You will own the technical roadmap and the development process, and work with a team of engineers on evolving this dashboard.

Role

To be successful in this role, you will need strong experience outputting high precision interfaces and experiences in startup and/or consulting environments. It requires a deep understanding of modern markup, styling best practices and the implementation of Typescript/JavaScript components in React. In such a dynamic environment, great communication is essential.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Establishing and following the minimal necessary processes, like technical roadmaps, OKRs, milestones, regular team meetings;
• Design and develop frontend projects for the NEAR Blockchain Explorer
• Review code, enforce quality, and guide technical direction
• Work with open source community by collaborating with external contributors on our codebase, creating and participating in events, facilitating information exchange between our community and other open source communities
• Participating in the on-call rotation

Qualifications

• Ability to design and deliver web 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)
• Ability to operate in European time zones
• You should be a great communicator and remain calm under pressure or when juggling multiple priorities;
• You should be a humble and inspirational leader who is comfortable leading by example;
• We expect you to have good project management skills;

Nice to Have

• Experience with WAMP-proto (or WebSocket / pub-sub APIs)
• Community focus and open-source mindset
• Capable of learning and can onboard quickly
• Ability to work across multiple time zones with remote colleagues
• Ability to adapt to last-minute asks and changing timelines and priorities with flexibility and good humor
• Curiosity about the Open Web and how it can improve the world

About NEAR and the NEAR Collective

NEAR's mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. The NEAR platform provides a decentralized application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of Open Finance and the Open Web in their hands.

The NEAR platform, NEAR Protocol and associated tooling are being built by the NEAR Collective, a collection of the best engineers in the world who work across teams, companies and countries similar to other large scale open source projects. Core contributors include a couple of 2-time ICPC world champions, 2 gold medalists, a Latin American champion and multiple other competitive programming finalists.

Working at NEAR

Roles are posted to this portal on behalf of the companies that make up the NEAR Collective and are typically located anywhere in the world because most of the companies are fully remote. Regardless of where you work, this is a high performance culture that values ownership, execution and professionalism but pairs it with curiosity and experimentation. The vision is big but the right team is behind it.

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