Crypto Jobs in San Francisco, California, United States

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 and meticulous engineer 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.

We are looking for an empathetic engineer to work on integrations with various important partners, including exchanges, custody providers, dApps and wallets. In this role you will communicate with important partners to understand their needs and help them successfully integrate with NEAR. The success of these integrations is crucial to the overall growth of the entire NEAR ecosystem.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Help partners integrate with NEAR by providing engineering support, answering their technical questions, co-developing products with them;
• Work with partner product managers and technical stakeholders to gather partner feedback and work with internal teams to deliver product improvements;
• Work with the protocol teams to implement features that are important to the success of certain important partners;
• Maintain existing integrations with important partners;

What We're Looking For:

• Ability to quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts; we expect you to obtain a decent understanding of various aspects of the blockchain protocol;
• Experience or ability to work with a variety of programming languages and technologies, including JavaScript, Rust, Python;
• You should be a great communicator and remain calm under pressure or when juggling multiple priorities;
• Being comfortable with diving in multiple parts of a technology stack and quickly navigate through it;
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

We'd Love If You Have:

• Prior experience working on business-critical integrations;
• Familiarity with other crypto or blockchain technologies;
• Experience working at a startup;
• Prior experience with systems level languages

Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:

Depending on calendar availability, from the first stage to the final stage, we do our best to keep the entire process to under three weeks. Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:

• Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes)
• Meet with the Hiring Manager (30-60 minutes)
• Technical & Leadership Interviews (4 x 60 minutes)
• Culture & Values Interview (30 to 45 minutes)

Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

Ideal Location For This Role

This is a fully remote role, so that your timezone matches or overlaps with our leadership for this role, you’ll ideally be located in Americas or Europe.