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We’re building the baseline infrastructure of the new web but to be successful we need to cultivate an ecosystem of great applications. This means actively supporting the early developers and entrepreneurs who want to build on the protocol. And, of course, building new example applications, tooling and infrastructure they need to get started and grow.

You’ll be a good fit for this role if you have a wide-ranging full-stack skillset and a love of working with other developers. Some days will require problem solving and helping these developers build great apps while other days will involve creating new applications and tooling from scratch internally.

To be successful, you will need to be comfortable working quickly at the web/mobile application layer down to the blockchain layer to help troubleshoot and smooth out the developer experience for our partner developers. This requires interacting with the scripting and markup that defines the apps, the TypeScript/AssemblyScript and Rust APIs for creating smart contracts and a bit of Rust to understand what’s going on at the blockchain layer. Perhaps most importantly, you’ll need to be comfortable communicating frequently with both our internal teams and external developers.

You’ll work closely with multiple different teams within Near — Engineering, Developer Relations, Biz Dev and Community. Because you see so much of the ecosystem in this role, it’s a great launching pad for going deeper in many possible directions, whether that means building your own applications, hacking on the core protocol or even joining one of the other teams who are building on top of the NEAR Platform.

While energy and enthusiasm are key, this is a position for **well-experienced developers only**. We don’t care what certifications you have or even if you went to school… but you absolutely need to be able to ship great code.

## Requirements:

1. 5+ years building production-level applications and experiences in rapid iteration, high-quality environments like top tier startups and consultancies.
2. Comfort operating across the full stack including front end web, mobile, back end, smart contracts and dev ops.

## Get to Know NEAR

Near is building the infrastructure of the decentralized web, including the NEAR Protocol smart contract platform and a variety of supporting tools. NEAR is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while still providing the scalability necessary to serve those users.

## Working at Near

At Near, you have the chance to become an early member of a world-class team with significant upside. The opportunity we are tackling will completely reshape the landscape of the web for decades to come and potentially affect billions of people. We are funded by the top names in the industry and have attracted the best technical minds in the world to create a technology that will directly change the lives of billions of people.

This is a performance culture where you’ll be working alongside — and learning from — other top quality teammates executing at their best. We value boldness, ownership, transparency, curiosity and experimentation. We pay competitively plus we offer all employees full health benefits, daily lunch and a fully stocked office within walking distance of BART in SOMA.

If you’re excited by the challenge of winning in the fastest moving ecosystem as a member of its best team, this might be a good fit.

Are you a strong developer who loves writing, speaking and teaching other developers about the technology while taking a meaningful role in shaping the experience they have with the platform itself?

As a developer evangelist, your mission is to educate and engage early adopters and the broader developer community about the NEAR platform by telling a compelling story and backing it up with practical examples. That means doing whatever it takes to bring them into our developer community and keep them actively and happily building within it while learning from their experiences.

Practically speaking, this means that you will wear a lot of hats. As the core protocol is developed, you will be a key interface with the early adopter community to make sure they will have a great experience on the platform when it is released. You’ll need to build developer tools, write demos/tutorials and otherwise do pretty much whatever it takes to ensure developers have a great experience onboarding to and using the platform.

Going forward, you will be a visible presence representing NEAR in communities around the world by working directly with our events and community teams. This means everything from speaking to hosting workshops to supporting developers at events. You are the voice of the community to our internal team as well, helping to inform the development and education roadmaps.

This is a role that will allow you to build real software and also take a public-facing role representing the platform to developer communities. It is one part engineering, one part community and one part education with a sprinkle of marketing and PR. You will be based in San Francisco but travel is occasionally a necessary component to support events around the world.

Key Outcomes

1. Build demos, SDKs and implementations to help bring early customers onto the platform.
2. Work with the team to produce the technical tools and educational materials necessary to create an amazing developer experience.
3. Represent NEAR as the technical voice at major events and conferences, including speaking and supporting the platform development.

Key Requirements

1. 4+ years in software engineering at top companies.
2. 2+ years in evangelism, education or other public-facing technical roles.
3. Experience working with blockchain technologies (eg DApp development).
4. A strong track record of speaking, presenting and teaching highly technical topics.
5. A clear passion for both creating software and engaging live communities.

## Get to Know Near

Near is building the infrastructure of the decentralized web, including the NEAR Protocol smart contract platform and a variety of supporting tools. NEAR is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while still providing the scalability necessary to serve those users.

## Working at Near

At Near, you have the chance to become an early member of a world-class team with significant upside. The opportunity we are tackling will completely reshape the landscape of the web for decades to come and potentially affect billions of people. We are funded by the top names in the industry and have attracted the best technical minds in the world to create a technology that will directly change the lives of billions of people.

This is a performance culture where you’ll be working alongside — and learning from — other top quality teammates executing at their best. We value boldness, ownership, transparency, curiosity and experimentation. We pay competitively plus we offer all employees full health benefits, daily lunch and a fully stocked office within walking distance of BART in SOMA.

If you’re excited by the challenge of winning in the fastest moving ecosystem as a member of its best team, this might be a good fit.

Job Description

We are looking for a person who loves automating manual work, solving complicated problems, says no to downtime, working in an energetic and free-thinking environment, feels comfortable challenging opinions, and most importantly who shares with us the same desire to build the distributed Web.

The NEAR Protocol Engineering team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to work as part of all core engineering teams to help cope with the operational load of a fast growing team. At NEAR Protocol, we must deliver availability, performance, efficiency, monitoring and emergency response, all while enabling decentralization of the NEAR Protocol’s Open Web infrastructure. We are looking for a person to join our distributed on-call rotational team and help us create a self-sustaining blockchain infrastructure.

This is a high-productivity and highly dynamic startup environment so you will need to be comfortable operating quickly but precisely amidst changing needs. There is opportunity to inject your creativity in almost any aspect of blockchain development.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Proven ability to be effective on a distributed team
• Passion for open source
• Advanced Python coding skills
• Solid understanding of UNIX internals
• Sharp troubleshooting skills, no problem is impossible to solve
• Experience with cloud provisioning tooling like Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Docker
• Experience with monitoring infrastructure like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog
• Experience with CI infrastructure such as Travis, CircleCI, or Jenkins
• Experience in keeping services up 24/7
• Expertise in large-scale distributed systems.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with the Rust programming language
• Experience with multiple cloud providers AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• Knowledge of blockchain technologies.

Responsibilities

• Together with the engineering team you will share the 24/7 oncall rotation
• Help build self-driving services which run and repair themself
• Help define SLOs and mission critical metrics
• Drive our incident management response processes
• Build an emergency response playbook with monitoring and alerting
• Work with our core blockchain, middleware, and apps teams to deliver secure and high availability services
• Collaborate with a geographically distributed team, work in the open as part of the NEAR Protocol open source project, and engage with NEAR Protocol’s global community

The role: 

We’re looking for a tech-savvy Legal Counsel to partner Status into its growth phase. Status has always put compliance first, and you’ll be a trusted advisor to our founders and team members, helping us navigate the diverse global legal implications of our research and development of blockchain technology.

You will provide practical and well-informed advice in response to complex and rapidly changing conditions, working autonomously to drive business projects as our standalone legal lead.

Responsibilities:

• Research and provide legal steering on Status’s worldwide business plans, projects and product launches
• Own all legal needs and requirements of Status, calling in specialist external law firms as needed, and manage the relationships we already have with a number of external counsels
• Draft, negotiate and execute commercial agreements with service providers, partners, and contractors
• Analyze and identify legal and regulatory risks and implications and help Status meet its compliance obligations
• Take the lead on corporate law matters; contribute to Status’s corporate legal structuring
• Answer internal as well as external legal and regulatory requests
• Manage and organise all legal documentation
• Implement and maintain relevant policies and procedures.

You ideally will have: 

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role!]

• A strong alignment to our principles:
• An advanced legal qualification
• Working experience in an international, dynamic legal environment
• The ability to identify and resolve legal issues quickly and pragmatically while maintaining the highest standards of compliance
• Excellent communication, organizational and analytical skills
• Experience of working remotely and asynchronously.

Bonus points if:

• You have a passion for blockchain technology 
• You’ve worked for an open source organization or tech startup previously
• You are a direct and pragmatic advisor with a knack for avoiding unnecessary legalese. 

Compensation: 

The anticipated salary range for this role is $70,000 – $100,000 USD (paid in local currency, or crypto, and dependent on experience & location), plus a grant of Status Network Tokens vesting over a three-year period. More info on SNT here here: .

Hiring process:

The hiring process for this role will be:

1. Initial chat with Ceri from our People Ops team
2. Interview with Carl, our co-founder
3. Interview with Jarrad, our other co-founder
4. A small, paid, piece of advisory work so that we can get a feel for how we’d collaborate (should take no more than 6 hours of your time) – if you have relevant work samples you’d prefer to send us, that works too.

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline. We’re looking for the new Legal Counsel (you?) to join the team as soon as possible, and we’re hoping to close the hiring process ideally by the end of July 2020.

Questions about this role?

Feel free to reach Ceri from our People Ops team on the Status app at ceri.stateofus.eth or Discord at @ceri#9009.

Circle is a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currency and blockchains for payments and commerce worldwide. Circle is the pioneer of USDC, the fastest growing, regulated digital currency that is backed by US dollars. There are currently over $700 million USDC in circulation, more than $1.7 billion USDC have been issued in under a year’s time, and over $30B in online payments have been made with this breakthrough payment technology. Circle was founded in 2013 and is backed by $250 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (Airbnb, Circle), Accel Partners, Blockchain Capital, Pantera and Digital Currency Group, with centers of excellence in Boston, New York, Dublin and London.

What you’ll be part of:

With the mission “To raise global economic prosperity through programmable internet commerce,” Circle was founded on the belief that blockchains and digital currency will rewire the global economic system, creating a fundamentally more open, inclusive, efficient and integrated world economy. We envision a global economy where people and businesses everywhere can more freely connect and transact with each other with new technologies for digital money. We believe such a system can raise prosperity for people and companies everywhere.

Engineering at Circle:

In 2020, Circle unveiled : a set of solutions and smarter technology to help businesses accept payments in a more global, scalable and efficient alternative to traditional banking rails (spoiler: we’re using under the hood).

Over the next 12 months, we’re going to rapidly grow our API customer base and enable even more businesses to easily integrate and benefit from the breakthrough of programmable money on the internet.

If you’re data-driven, interested in building something meaningful and would love to work in an entrepreneurial environment, we can’t wait to hear from you.

Your team is responsible for:

Developers love using Circle APIs but our business partners rely on our client tools for their day-to-day insights and health of their billing stack. To that end, you’ll work on providing a seamless onboarding flow to help new business get their payments off the ground. And as a new business launches with Circle APIs, they use Circle’s dashboards (with your help!) to help manage and optimize their payments. You’ll be part of a small frontend team where you will play a key role in helping us create delightful customer experiences in a sound and scalable way.

You’ll work on:

• Challenging (and fun!) problems centered around digital currencies & their adoption. Did we mention that Circle launched a “programmable dollar” called USD Coin (or USDC)?
• Building modern front-end applications with beautiful & consistent UI for our customers
• Partner with our Product and Design teams to define the best UX for the tools we’re building
• Experimentation, A/B tests and client feedback sessions to stay connected to our users and constantly provide delightful experiences
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality

You’ll bring to Circle:

• 4+ years experience building user interfaces for complex applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience building responsive, component-based web apps with modern JavaScript front-end frameworks (e.g., Vue, React, Angular)
• A keen sense of knowing when a feature “works” and when it can be improved.
• A focus on coding standards and code quality — a desire to have great test coverage to enable continuous delivery
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively
• Self-starter, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.