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Principal EVM Engineer – Smart Contracts Team

EngineerEngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200Since 2022H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

128 days ago

Salary

Not specified

Postgraduate Degree10 yrs expEnglishJavaNode.jsOpen Source

Job Description

• Being part of an engineering team that delivers values frequently, working from design to implementation in a daily collaborative process. • Working on plain Java codebase (with no libraries or frameworks) with high performance, low latency and high throughput requirements • Designing, implementing, and innovating transaction processing, execution algorithms, processes, and opcodes. • Implementing and enhancing the Java smart contract services on the Hedera network that expose EVM features • Upgrading the Hedera EVM with the Ethereum roadmap upgrades and the Hedera native innovations. • Contributing to open source code clients that focus on VM state transitions based on contract bytecode with the goal of new feature support and performance improvements • Developing various aspects of the Hedera Hashgraph Distributed Ledger Ecosystem • Implementing Hedera improvement proposals requested by the community • Testing the Hedera EVM with Ethereum community tools and Consensus node testing tools. • Spending 80% of your time designing, coding, and testing

Job Requirements

Master’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent work experience
10+ years of software development experience
4+ years of blockchain development experience
Experience with distributed open-source application development
Expertise in the Java programming language, VM, and its ecosystem of libraries and tools
Experience in plain vanilla Java development with high performance requirements
Deep knowledge of and experience with EVM-based blockchains
Experience writing and debugging smart contracts for an EVM-based ledger
Experience in a tech or team lead role with the ability to guide engineers up to the Staff level
Strong grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including concurrency, performance optimization, and reusability
Strong engineering principles and processes aimed at developing simple, modular, testable, and high-quality code
Familiarity with high-performance architectural systems and design patterns
Familiarity with test-driven software development processes and continuous integration tools and systems
Familiarity with security principles, cryptographic tools, and libraries