Blockchain Jobs at NEAR

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 Developer Console team is looking for a person to lead the work on our core product -- Developer Console, which is a one-stop shop for developers building and running projects on NEAR. This project will connect a large variety of services, dashboards, and controls together providing a unified and polished developer experience.

Role

This position requires working with a team of full stack and front-end engineers, communicating very closely with product managers and the developer relations team, as well as collaboration with other teams that would provide services and tools that will be connected into the Developer Console.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with full stack and front-end engineers on building the Developer Console;
• Establishing the product feedback loop, working with product managers, developer relations, partners, and the community;
• Building a great engineering team, ensuring the happiness and productivity of the individuals;
• Establishing and following the minimal necessary processes, like technical roadmaps, OKRs, milestones, regular team meetings;
• Establishing resilient team culture that can overcome any turbulence without burnout;
• Leading by example, writing the code, fixing bugs, and participating in design discussions when it is necessary to help the engineers working with you.

Competencies

• 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;
• You should be familiar with the full stack and front-end development;
• We expect you to have good project management skills;
• While you should have a zeal for technical excellence, you should be very comfortable with balancing degrees of risk and business needs;
• Focus on improving developer and user experience;

About NEAR and the NEAR Collective

NEAR's purpose is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world and its mission is to drive the adoption of Open Technologies. 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, 4 gold medalists, a Latin American champion and multiple other competitive programming finalists.

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.