Job Description

About Clearmatics

Clearmatics is a blockchain protocol engineering firm dedicated to creating decentralized financial market infrastructures that are more open, efficient, and resilient compared to the existing legacy market structures. We hold a bold vision for this new market infrastructure, aiming to solve currently unaddressed problems of the real economy, including "missing markets" issues.

By utilizing technologies that support peer-to-peer trading and settlement, we envision new markets where digital assets reflect real-world risk factors—better expressing macro-economic or climatic phenomena. Our mission is to make these important risk factors tradable by anyone, anywhere, with no dependency on traditional financial intermediaries.

Founded in 2015, Clearmatics has been a steadfast supporter of Open Source development and an active participant in blockchain and cryptography research communities. We've also backed numerous decentralized infrastructure initiatives. We are currently looking to hire a Core Developer to strengthen our Layer 1 Engineering team.

Our technology stack is Ethereum-like, so a deep understanding and passion for the space is essential. Some key areas we tackle include:

• Blockchain infrastructure optimized for financial use-cases
• Protocols for applications such as smart contract-based derivatives, synthetic assets, and cryptocurrency stabilization
• Scalability and privacy through cryptography (zkSNARKs, multiparty computation, private transactions/assets)

Currently, Clearmatics is significantly involved as the Launch Partner for the Autonity Project. Autonity is an EVM-based public blockchain for decentralized derivatives clearing. Learn more about the Autonity project and its ongoing testnet games through the links below:

• Autonity
• Autonity Game
• Autonity Docs

About You

You are a systems programmer with vast knowledge of Layer 1 protocols and a fervor for blockchain and decentralization. You aim for high-quality code that is clean, efficient, and maintainable, and understand the impact of design choices on overall system behavior. You exhibit a genuine interest in blockchain and possibly have open source contributions to showcase. You have strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

As a Core Developer, you will be involved at all stages of the development lifecycle for the Autonity protocol and its blockchain node client (a fork of go-ethereum):

• Implement new protocol features in Go and Solidity
• Develop new distributed systems tests and frameworks
• Contribute to protocol and design specifications
• Collaborate with community members to resolve issues

Your work will ensure the Autonity client is accurate, reliable, performant, and secure, allowing it to serve as the foundation for a new ecosystem of decentralized markets.

Requirements

• At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong programming skills in a low-level language like Go, Rust, or C++ (ideally 2+ years with Go)
• Experience with network, concurrent, and distributed programming/debugging on Linux systems
• Good knowledge of Ethereum protocols, BFT and dPoS consensus, P2P messaging, and crypto primitives

Bonus Points

• Experience developing on a blockchain node client (preferably Ethereum-like)
• Knowledge of distributed systems theory from coursework or self-study
• Smart contract programming experience using Solidity and Web3 APIs

Our compensation is blockchain competitive and dependent on your skills & experience.