MERN Stack + Web3 Developer

Job Description:

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Blockchain Developer to join our dynamic team. As a Blockchain Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining blockchain-based applications and solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative blockchain solutions that meet our business requirements. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in blockchain technology, solid programming skills, and a passion for staying updated with the latest trends and developments in the blockchain space.

Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and implement blockchain solutions based on business requirements.
2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate blockchain technology into existing systems and applications.
3. Research and evaluate blockchain frameworks, platforms, and tools to identify the most suitable solutions for our projects.
4. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for blockchain applications.
5. Implement smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) using Solidity or other relevant programming languages.
6. Ensure the security, scalability, and performance of blockchain solutions.
7. Conduct code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure the quality of deliverables.
8. Stay updated with the latest developments, standards, and best practices in blockchain technology.
9. Provide technical guidance and support to team members and stakeholders.
10. Document technical specifications, architecture, and processes related to blockchain development projects.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
2. Proven experience as a Blockchain Developer or related role.
3. Strong understanding of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized systems.
4. Proficiency in programming languages such as Solidity, JavaScript, Python, or C++.
5. Experience with blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda, or EOS.
6. Familiarity with smart contract development and deployment.
7. Knowledge of cryptographic principles and security protocols.
8. Experience with blockchain development tools, libraries, and frameworks.
9. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
10. Strong communication and teamwork skills.
11. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
12. Certification in blockchain development (e.g., Certified Blockchain Developer) is a plus.

Join our team and be part of exciting projects at the forefront of blockchain technology innovation!

We are a research and product development studio focusing on building applications powered by blockchain and AI technology.

We are looking for a DeFi Software Engineer with a deep understanding of Ethereum and tons of curiosity!

What are we building: We are building a peer-to-pool-based derivatives trading platform (perps and options) with novel mechanics where liquidity providers can choose whether they want to be actively or passively involved in making the market.

Responsibilities

1. Designing, building, and testing smart contracts and related infrastructure

2. Researching new DeFi protocols and their connectors and building on them

3. Building real-time monitoring tools and working with our team on latency-sensitive operations

4. Staying up to date on any developments in Defi relevant to the project

Qualifications

1. Must have extensive knowledge of Solidity, smart contract development (web3js or eth-brownie), testing and deploying a functioning smart contract on an EVM chain

2. Knowledge of Python (knowledge of Golang/Rust programming is pleasant to have).

3. Must be comfortable working with either eth-brownie

4. Comfortable working in a dynamic, research-oriented team with several ongoing concurrent projects

5. You look forward to working with an interdisciplinary team that longs to find solutions together.

6. Deep technical and practical understanding of DeFi protocols*

7. *Knowledge of DeFi isn't a must but it is a big plus! The number of years of experience does not matter as long as you have built complex projects from scratch, have a burning desire to learn more, constantly improve yourself, and solve tricky problems daily.

We're a small team so you can assure yourself that whatever you contribute - in terms of engineering, or otherwise - is always heard and discussed.

Benefits

1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

2. Equity in the protocol

3. A unique open research environment, where everybody contributes and sees the full spectrum of our work, from inception to production

4. The chance to shape our firm's legacy and exchange knowledge with the team on every part of what we do. The role is remote. Please share GitHub profiles and details of previous projects worked on (both commercial and personal)

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.

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 ).

• Writing and Understand smart contracts using Solidity 
• Write backend APIs using Next JS, Node JS
• Experience is cross chain development, block chain oracles, multi sig is desirable
• Thorough understanding of block chain components.
• Thorugh understanding of IDO process, Swapping protocols, Tokenomics
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes , Cloud technologies like AWS , GCP is highly desirable.

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