Blockchain Developer

Role Overview

We're seeking a MERN Stack Developer with experience in Web3 development to join our team. The ideal candidate will be comfortable building full-stack applications, integrating smart contracts, and working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain full-stack applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js
• Integrate smart contracts and blockchain functionality using Web3.js, Ethers.js, or similar libraries
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and blockchain engineers
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Stay updated with the latest Web3 trends and technologies

Requirements

• 1+ year of hands-on experience with the MERN stack
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of smart contracts, Ethereum, and Web3.js/Ethers.js
• Familiarity with Solidity and Ethereum development tools (e.g., Truffle, Hardhat)
• Understanding of REST APIs and integration practices
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Bonus Skills

• Experience with IPFS, The Graph, or Layer 2 solutions
• Contributions to open-source Web3 projects
• Knowledge of NFT standards or DeFi protocols

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
• Flexible working hours and remote-friendly culture
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Web3 projects
• A collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment

• Expertise in Typescript, Nodejs and Golang. 
• Prior working experience in Hyperledger 2.x. 
• Strong understanding of blockchain, smart contracts, consensus mechanisms and cryptography. 
• Proficiency in developing Chain codes/Smart Contracts. 
• Experience building front end applications using Angular. 
• Proficient in MongoDB. 
• Experience with Relation databases like MySQL, MSSQL. 
• Write application code, smart contracts, and unit test cases according to the quality guidelines. 
• Work across multiple teams, mentor junior developers and actively participate in code reviews. 
• Co-ordinate with architects to produce technical designs.  
• Skilled in Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, Git. 
• Knowledge of design patterns and best practices. 
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components. 
• Awareness of CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficient in Solidity programming language
• Experience with wallet integrations
• Experience with ethers.js/web3.js
• Experience with Nodejs
• Experience with upgradable contracts, dynamic contracts, and factory contracts
• Design and develop smart contracts and decentralized applications on Ethereum, Polygon and Tron
• Excellent knowledge of various token standards like ERC20, ERC721 and ERC1155
• Write end-to-end unit tests for all smart contracts

Responsibilities:

• Develop application functionality using various coding languages.
• Setting security measures against various types of cybercrimes.
• Maintain client and server-side applications.
• Train the fellow team members on blockchain technology.
• Attend meetings, brainstorm sessions, and daily standup for enhancing your knowledge of new technologies.
• Adhering to all the rules and regulations of data protection for digital payments.
• Staying updated with the latest crypto technologies for data protection.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of exp in Designing, developing, and testing blockchain systems.
• Ability to write efficient and modular code.
• Good exp in preparing documentation on the blockchain development processes.
• Securing the blockchain network with new technologies.
• Utilize cryptography techniques to protect against hackers and other cyber attacks.

We are looking for a Blockchain Developer who has around 2-3 years of experience, and has past experience with working on blockchain-based systems and scenarios. The ideal candidate would be someone who understands the concepts of Blockchain technology and having working experience on Rust and Solana.

• Desire to work in a startup environment, fun@work culture and able to self-manage.

• In Depth understanding of at-least two blockchain network like Rust, Substrate, Polkadot Solana, Hedera Hashgraph, Tezos, BlockApps, Algorand, Corda, Lambda, Cargo etc

• Familiarity with basic cryptography to understand the essentials of blockchain systems.

• Hands on in Rust

• Designing and writing well-structured APIs in Node.js and MongoDb to connect to Blockchain infrastructure

• Staying up to date with new developments and news in integrated chains.

• Past experience with Wallets or Crypto Exchanges would be a major plus.

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

• Experience working in an agile development process.

• Documenting architecture and guidelines.

• Be proficient in using version control and continuous integration, with tools such as Gitlab, Git and Jenkins.

• Write clear, maintainable and testable code that you are proud of.

• Attend training and education where necessary to up-skill themselves.

• Experience in writing smart contracts for large-scale production blockchain applications.

• Cross-team contribution whenever required.

• Familiarity with basic cryptography.

• Should have a deep understanding of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space and smart contract systems, specifically having a deep understanding of Rust.

We at Arcana(arcana.network) are looking for someone well versed with applied math and cryptography to help design our protocol and allied systems.

Specifically, we are looking for knowledge in a significant subset of the following:

1. Verifiable Delay Function(VDF) implementation
2. Distributed key generation(DKG) and management(DKMS)
3. Encryption schemes
4. Game theoretical (dis)incentivisation on a decentralized network
5. Distributed Random Number generation
6. End to End Encryption schemes
7. Zero Knowledge proofs
8. Verifiable computation

Academics and part time consultants also welcome to apply.

Responsibilities:-

Ø  Research, design, develop, and test blockchain technologies.

Ø  Brainstorm and help evaluate applications for new tools and technologies as they continually evolve.

Ø  Maintain and extend current client- and server-side applications responsible for integration and business logic.

Ø  Be involved in the global blockchain community—work on implementing and integrating the latest improvement proposals.

Ø  Document new solutions as well as maintaining that of existing ones.

Skills:-

Ø  Strong  software development background.

Ø  Experience working with large codebases.

Ø  Experience working with open-source projects.

Ø  Proficiency in one of the following languages: C++, Java, JavaScript ( Depending on the project ).

Ø  Strong  knowledge of common algorithms and data structures.

Ø  Familiarity with basic  cryptography.

Ø  Familiarity with P2P networks.

Ø  Strong knowledge of bitcoin-like blockchains.

Ø  Strong knowledge of concurrency and writing efficient and safe multithreaded code.

Ø  Strong knowledge of STL, C++11 ( In the case of a blockchain-based on C++ ).

Ø  Proficiency in the Qt Widgets module ( Applies to projects where a GUI wallet application is needed ).

About Mastercard

We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network.

We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless.

We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives.

We believe as our company grows, so should you.

We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Overview Services and Data is helping to shape the future of data insights by leveraging billions of anonymized, aggregated transactions in a 10 petabyte date warehouse to help financial institutions, merchants, media, and governments manage their businesses more effectively.

Advanced Analytics is charged with servicing clients by centralizing and optimizing the world class analytical, modeling, software coding, data sourcing, product development, product management, econometrics, and associated delivery capabilities of the MasterCard Advisors organization.

It focuses on creating innovative technology solutions which leverage technology in the data science, artificial intelligence and analytics arenas; on enabling the field with industrialized, repeatable products and on researching and incubating emerging technology to determine how they might apply to our customers and facilitate positive outcomes.

What we are re looking for

• Are you motivated by developing new Analytical skills, leading to insights into issues and developing recommendations that add real value to clients?
• Have you managed the client independently and effectively?
• Do you want to play a key role in driving a world beyond cash?
• Leading the formulation of artificial intelligence and machine learning solution objectives. Working on technical requirements based on user need.
• Responsible for creating the framework of solutions that take data intensive and complex business challenges and provide easily consumed and automated outcomes
• Using unique visualization techniques, condenses large volumes of complex ideas into elegant and simple visual models
• Determine opportunities to exploit new data sources or leverage new outcomes from existing data sources, by applying new models and algorithms to create business value
• Influences a client's strategic decisions by using deep industry expertise and deploying innovative Deep Learning analytics solutions in the operational systems Leadership Skills
• Works closely with clients/internal stakeholders to understand their business needs and design a technical solution
• Proving viability of the solution through mechanisms like proof-of-concepts
• Thought Leadership in AI – Developing compelling audience-specific messages and tools. Capture and share best practices and insights internally and with partners and customers.
• Self-driven, energetic, creative with ability to work in global teams.
• Excellent communication skills and a wide knowledge base, to convince the Stakeholders on application of AI/ML
• Provide technical leadership to the team members in relevant topics on AI/ML
• Adaptable - Takes in stride and constantly attunes to the changing needs of a highly dynamic business
• Curious - our key contributors are always seeking to grow their knowledge, to gain new perspectives, and to find better ways forward by researching and showcasing latest AI tools, techniques and applications
• Tenacious - self-starters who will take ownership of projects and bring them to completion despite difficulties or setbacks
• Consulting and Project Management Experience preferred

Functional and Technical Skills

• Experience in building and implementing AI application in any of the two domains - Fraud, risk, marketing, finance, operations for Banks, Fintech, Ecommerce, merchants or retailers
• Has a deep understanding of business value industry requirements and advanced analytic models (statistical, operations research, computing process)
• Responsible for building applications using artificial intelligence/machine learning technology, applying latest industrial and academic developments, prefer Kaggle hackathon participant
• Expertise in deep learning frameworks for Production Systems like Tensorflow, Keras (for RPD and neural net architecture evaluation), PyTorch and Xgboost, Caffe, Theono
• Proficient in Deep Learning algorithm techniques like Random Forest, GBM, KNN, SVM, Bayesian, Text Mining techniques, Multilayer Perceptron, Neural Networks – Feedforward, CNN, LSTM’s GRU’s.
• Optimization techniques – Activity regularization (L1 and L2), Adam, Adagrad, Adadelta concepts; Cost Functions in Neural Nets – Contrastive Loss, Hinge Loss, Binary Cross entropy, Categorical Cross entropy; developed applications in KRR, NLP, Speech and Image processing
• Expertise in classical Machine Learning algorithms like Logistic Regression, Decision trees, Clustering (K-means, Hierarchical and Self-organizing Maps), TSNE, PCA, Bayesian models, Time Series ARIMA/ARMA, Recommender Systems - Collaborative Filtering, FPMC, FISM, Fossil etc
• Extensive experience in statistical tools and programming environments like Python, R, SAS, SQL
• Experience with BIG DATA platforms - Hadoop, Hive, Spark, GPU Clusters for deep learning

Qualifications

• Minimum Graduate degree in Mathematics/Computer Science/Engineering