About Applied Blockchain
Applied Blockchain is an innovative applications development company, focusing on distributed ledger technology and smart contracts
Based in London at Level39 Fintech hub in Canary Wharf, Applied Blockchain are growing rapidly and are now launching their new offices in Portugal
They are looking to expand on their expert team of blockchain developers that have been building cutting-edge solutions for disruptive startups and corporate clients in banking and finance, e-payments, energy trading, aviation, telecommunications and social impact sectors
They are building a new generation of decentralised applications, working through some of the most interesting problems in this field such as KYC, identity management, transactions anonymity, encryption and data security
What you’ll be doing:
Developing cutting edge software solutions for startups and corporate clients
Engaging with clients to understand their product vision and design proof-of-concept and production grade products
Developing smart contracts on solidity
Liaising with frontend developers to build APIs for web and mobile
Writing automated tests for smart contracts and server side code
Design and build large scale, high volume systems
Required skills & experience:
5+ years of backend development experience
2+ years of Node
js
Experience in writing automated tests
Experience with API design and implementation
Experience with SQL and NoSql Databases (MySQL/Postgres, Redis)
Good understanding of Linux
Git knowledge (feature branches, github flow)
Additional desirable experience:
Knowledge of ES6+/ES2015+ (new features, specifically: Promises, Async/Await and Generators)
Experience in API development and best practices (testing, documenting, versioning, monitoring)
Testing Frameworks (Jest, Mocha/Chai/Should
js, Enzyme)
Docker experience (Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
Cloud computing platforms: Azure, AWS (user roles / network configuration / VM deployment)
Experience with EC2 APIs (S3, creating and configuring networks and VMs programmatically)
Experience in React
Blockchain knowledge – Bitcoin: bitcoin core software and rpc api, bitcoin js libraries, block explorer apis, op-return and timestamping
Ethereum: web3
js, setting up and running geth/parity nodes, solidity smart contracts, truffle
js
HTML and CSS