Rust Blockchain Engineer

We at Cake aspire to transform and decentralize finance with tomorrow's technology, with a globally distributed and close-knit team of doers and getters. Here's an opportunity to join a movement to break the mold. Join Cake and help us shape the future of personal finance.

This is a full-time remote position.

About The Team

Our talented engineering team pride themselves on writing good code. We care about good engineering practices, working with great people, and working on real and impactful products.

We practice test-driven development, and are more than happy to allow team members the opportunity to solve problems with unconventional or cutting-edge methods. If you care about continually improving your craft, and want to work with like-minded peers, this is the place for you!

What You'll Do
-Develop and maintain blockchain codebase, based around C++ with unit tests in Python. See https://github.com/defich/ain
-Work closely with internal and external collaborators in openly developing open-source blockchain-related software.
-Understand how blockchain works (e.g. mining consensus, transaction pooling, fork resolution, smart contracts).
-Maintain our public blockchain networks (e.g. DeFi Blockchain mainnet & testnet).
-Maintain good documentations for internal and external use.
-Actively communicate and collaborate with team and stakeholders for planning & development process.
-Be willing to pick up any other technology stacks when required to get the job done.

What You'll Need
-Bachelor's degree (or higher) in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
-3+ years of blockchain development experience, esp. related to OOP, data structures design, algorithms, unit testings, CI/CD, etc.
-At least 1 year experience using the Rust programming language
-Ability to work independently while collaborating in a fast-paced agile team.

The following are not required skills but they are huge pluses if you possess these:
-Deep understanding of blockchain & cryptography.
-Participation in open source software development and/or management.
-Rust experience.
-We at Cake are a fan of Rust and would be looking to adopt Rust for future projects, including transitioning of our existing ones.
JavaScript/TypeScript experience, esp. Electron.

Cake DeFi is a Singapore-based blockchain and fintech company that empowers users to be in control of their finances by creating cash flow and harnessing the potentials of Decentralized Finance. Founded in 2019, we currently have more than 30 employees of various backgrounds and nationalities, and growing.

Read More About Our Company At Www.cakedefi.com.

Cake DeFi also actively contributes to the open-source DeFiChain project. DeFiChain is a DeFi (Decentralized Finance) blockchain that, at the time of writing, has USD 55m of liquidity locked in its DEX (Decentralized Exchange), a market cap of more than USD 600m. It is the largest non-Turing complete blockchain and is based on Bitcoin. You will have the opportunity to work on DeFiChain at Cake.

Read more about DeFiChain at www.defichain.com.