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Optimum · Remote · Remote

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About Optimum

Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains. Backed by Spartan Group.

About the role

We're hiring a Jr. Software Engineer to join the Optimum team and turn product ideas into working prototypes. You'll work closely with our CTO and CPO to build, test and benchmark our solutions against the competition. This role is deliberately focused. Your job is product discovery through code: build it, measure it, learn from it, and help us find a good fit for our users. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong hands-on software engineering skills and a track record of shipping, such as open-source work or side projects
  • Strong hands-on full-stack engineering skills, from backend services and APIs to web front ends, with a record of shipping things such as open-source work or side projects
  • A prototyping mindset: comfortable building something rough to answer a question, then refining what works
  • A competitive streak and curiosity about how your work stacks up against alternatives
  • Comfort with performance measurement and benchmarking
  • Clear written communication and the ability to work with a distributed team
More about this role

Optimum is building the world's first data acceleration network for any blockchain. Powered by Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), Optimum scales network speed, robustness, and throughput by orders of magnitude.

Co-founded by Muriel Medard, co-inventor of RLNC, and a team of industry experts, Optimum introduces a breakthrough in Web3 infrastructure. Our infrastructure enables high-speed data propagation, fast access, and secure updates, scaling the world computer. Backers include 1kx, Spartan, Robot Ventures, Finality Capital, Triton Capital (fka Kraken Ventures), CMT Digital, SNZ, and others.

Learn more at getoptimum.xyz

We're hiring a Jr. Software Engineer to join the Optimum team and turn product ideas into working prototypes. You'll work closely with our CTO and CPO to build, test and benchmark our solutions against the competition.

This role is deliberately focused. Your job is product discovery through code: build it, measure it, learn from it, and help us find a good fit for our users.

Build working prototypes of new ideas alongside the engineering and product team.

Design and run benchmarks that compare our prototypes with competing solutions, and report results...

Read the full posting on Optimum's site ↗

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