Rust Jobs at GIANT Protocol

Overview

You will be a part of GIANT Protocol’s core development team, building Layer 1 chain using Substrate and defining standards for the same. You will be involved in defining technical specifications, implementing design patterns and hands-on development. You will be writing modules that all the other developers would use, including libraries, APIs, database/ storage connections and third party integrations primarily in Rust. Your diligence and patience to build highly-secured, scalable and high-performance solutions will be most valued.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the implemented Substrate design patterns and writing performant and maintainable code
• Solving development challenges and making architectural decisions by understanding the larger picture of the project’s goals.
• Design and create Substrate Pallets
• Update/Optimize runtime to develop a productionalized L1 Blockchain
• Contribute to creation of a custom wallet for the blockchain
• Build off-chain workers to connect business logic to our blockchain.
• Participate in security audits.
• Writing code that other developers use, including libraries, APIs and configurations.
• Paying close attention to unit-testing and security.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to improve our product and technology.
• Collaborate with the product and design teams to understand business goals, end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.
• Document decisions and roadmap for future impact.
• Create and improve technical documentation.
• Participate in sprints and scrum calls with our cross-regional team for successful delivery of product.
• Mentor and provide leadership to junior developers.

Qualifications

Must have:

• Has experience building Layer 1 native blockchain/components of blockchain using Substrate.
• Extensive experience with Rust, cargo, clippy and dependency management.
• 5+ years of programming experience with focus on using strongly typed languages (Rust, Golang, Typescript).
• 3+ years of blockchain development experience.
• Experience with Substrate framework and tools.
• Strong understanding of macros, traits, generics and lifetimes
• Experience with frameworks like HyperWeb, Mio, Tokio, Rocket and Actix (Is a Plus)
• Exposure to performance benchmarking
• Smart Contracts dev using Solidity or Ink.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS/ Azure/GCP
• Developed multi-threaded software and understand the asynchronous functionalities.
• Open source contributions to existing Layer 1 blockchain projects.
• Good blockchain troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of Layer 2 blockchain solutions.

Nice to have:

• Experience with token distribution and/or crowd loans.
• Experience working on DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) platform.

Persona of the kind of people who would be a culture fit:

• Strong relationship-building skills
• Exceptional analytical reasoning, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills
• Extremely self-driven and able to execute in a diligent manner
• Get a kick out of leading a solution towards its completion
• Fun to hang out with!