Job Description
Implement open protocols for peer-to-peer secure messaging. Create and maintain a sustainable and fault-tolerant distributed system. Write and maintain Nim code ( nwaku codebase). Understand and optimise the core functionality of complex software systems. Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews. Use libp2p to build infrastructure-level protocols. Support platforms and operators using nwaku software. Maintain Golang, Rust and other language SDKs built on top of FFI bindings.
Ideally, you have a passion for privacy-preserving, decentralised and blockchain technology with 4 years of software engineering experience, with low-level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust). Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically. Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks. Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal.
About Waku
Waku is part of the Logos tech stack, a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web, with technologies that lay the foundations for a freer internet.