About the company:
Lightning Labs is a software company that builds tools for faster and cheaper Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement core Taproot Assets Protocol (TAP) features and algorithms
- Contribute to mission critical peer-to-peer cryptocurrency daemons written in Go
- Collaborate with the team on research and design of future iterations of the Taproot Assets Protocol
- Participate in issue triage and code review of open source contributions
- Communicate with the wider community and industry about the software and technology
Requirements:
- Strong engineering background with solid programming skills
- Experience in Go desired, C or C++ relevant as well
- Thorough understanding of the principles of distributed systems and peer-to-peer networking
- Solid engineering practices and processes, such as testing methodology and documentation
- Experience with Bitcoin, cryptography, and/or financial software
- Prior contributions to crypto protocols and open source software collaboration preferred
Conditions:
- Distributed team
- Funding: Series B ($70M)