Technical Lead (MPC)

About Near One

Near One engineering team is supporting development of the infrastructure of Layer 1 Blockchain, NEAR Protocol. The focus is on building scalable, performant, and reliable infrastructure to actualize visions of NEAR Protocol.

We are growing our team and looking for a software engineer with experience building and maintaining cryptography projects. As the in-house expert on cryptography, you will initiate, implement, and lead a variety of projects in this area, including integrating the results of the research done by teams in the Near community into NEAR Protocol. Your work will have a major impact on the scalability and decentralization of NEAR Protocol.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team
• Lead the design and implementation of Chain Signatures, a multi-party computation protocol, from end to end
• Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap
• Facilitate cross-functional work within the organization
• Facilitate discussions and debates, consolidating  different perspectives to drive decisions to execution
• Open source community contribution by collaborating with external contributors on our codebase and participating in community events.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience working with blockchains or complex cryptography
• Experience leading a team of engineers to work on complex engineering projects
• Ability to quickly learn and grasp complex engineering concepts
• An effective communicator and ability to remain calm under pressure and when juggling multiple priorities
• Fluency with algorithms and data structures
• Excellent coding skills
• Experience with Rust or alternatively but less preferred C++ or Go
• Experience with concurrency or parallelism
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field is a must

We’d Love If You Have:

• Open source contributions and previous or continued involvement in open source communities
• Knowledge and experience with cryptography
• Experience with Rust
• Experience working at a startup

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