What is the job?

Peter Drucker once said:

“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business."

And you know what makes marketing particularly unique? Effective storytelling.

We are blessed at RDX Works to support the most innovative decentralized network in the world. Yes, it’s a bold claim, but once you’ve had your #RadixRevelation, you’ll understand why.

And then you’ll understand your mission: To use the power of words to paint pictures, connect with people of all kinds, move them, and help them reach their own personal #RadixRevelation.

What are we looking for?

You know how to write great ad copy.

• You are smart and witty. You grasp complex concepts of both technical and economic natures and then identify ways to succinctly capture them, with a strong layer of emotion, in short, effective communications.

You are a scriptwriter.

• You can interview multiple stakeholders and then create an effective story to form the heroic tale that underlies and accompanies a video or a presentation.

You write great blog posts.

• You know how to be both a reporter and a journalist. You can take a piece of news and make it sexy and enticing. Not only that, you can make it a story that is memorable and worth sharing.

You’re a marketer.

• You can work with the product team and product marketing team to understand the benefits of features and then write engaging marketing copy for brochures, flyers, and one-pagers.

You are a deep thinker.

• You’re not afraid of collaborating with thought leaders to write pieces that open minds to new horizons. Whitepapers don’t scare you. They fire you up.

What do you need?

• A portfolio of inspiring creative work showcasing conceptual thinking and strong written skills, particularly when it comes to emerging technologies.
• Ability to create work in multiple styles across print and digital
• Proven ability that you “get” marketing and are a “student of the game.”
• Proven ability that you have a crypto-native mindset or, at least, are committed to the crypto journey.

Who are we?

At RDX Works, we're a team of like-minded thinkers who have long been convinced that we're living in the earliest stages of a global financial revolution. This revolution is being fuelled by decentralized finance (or DeFi for short), which is enabling an assortment of pioneering developers and entrepreneurs to re-invent almost every financial product that is currently traded and invested in traditional markets, without requiring central authorities or siloed infrastructure. DeFi has captured a great deal of attention and investment in the crypto-aware niche, growing assets under management from $1 billion to over $200 billion in a few years. Impressive as its growth has been, its current market size isn't even a rounding error on the over $400 trillion held in traditional finance. We're focused on what it will take to go from billions to trillions.

RDX went back to first principles to come up with the right technical solution—the first layer-one protocol built specifically for mainstream DeFi—and we have already tested out at over 1 million transactions per second. We're keenly aware that the need for an infinitely scalable platform is only one prerequisite among many for mass adoption, and we're also blazing new ground in the areas of purpose-built developer tools, user experiences, and regulatory integration.

We have forged a path deep into the future of what distributed ledger technology is going to look like and we need you to come and be part of the team that is making that happen right now.

If this job sounds like it was made for you, then please apply directly via the link or email [email protected] for more information.

Alternatively, if you feel like you don’t match all of the requirements, we would love you to still apply anyway. We understand that confidence gaps and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates and we wouldn’t want this to prevent us from meeting you; especially as we are big advocates of helping people learn & grow. This is also another reason we do not advertise salaries, we want to keep it as even a playing field as possible!

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What is the job?

As an SDET at Radix, you will apply your boundless cunning to break distributed systems in new and interesting ways. You will study and emulate known attacks, and then concoct some new ones. You will make sure that happy path scenarios function as advertised, and that a massive array of potential error conditions all fail gracefully, predictably, and in a recoverable fashion.

During your first few months, your focus will be on creating automated tests verifying predictable pre- and post-conditions against a distributed, trustless system while coming up to speed on how the network operates and where the limitations are. With that understanding under your belt, you’ll start in on chaos testing and acting as a knowledgeable, malicious actor on our test networks.

Of course, you’ll also be contributing to test plans, highlighting gaps in coverage, creating regression tests to ensure fixed bugs stay fixed, and all the usual responsibilities of a test role. You’ll just have more fun doing those things, because we only hire fun and interesting people to work with. Your brain will bend in ways it wasn’t meant to be bent, you will form lifelong bonds with a team of incredible people, and you will forever remember the journey.

About You

• Whenever you look at a specification or an API, your mind goes straight to the edge cases.
• You’re a flexible coder and are confident in your ability to learn “enough to be dangerous” if you need to pick up a new language or tool.
• If asked about a familiar product or system, you have no trouble describing the various sub-systems that contribute to its overall function.
• You don’t get easily frustrated when trying to nail down difficult-to-reproduce issues. You are able to methodically narrow a bug investigation down to the critical elements.
• You’re intelligent and you pick up new concepts quickly. A lot of what we do here is rolling back the boundaries of known space, and there’s no playbook to refer to.

What skills do you need?

• At least 3 years in a quality assurance or development role for production software.
• Experience building test automation frameworks. Can write such code from scratch.
• Can integrate tests in CI, e.g., Jenkins.
• Experience with load testing.
• Familiarity with JVM languages, JavaScript, or Python.
• Understanding or experience with BDD, TDD, or contract testing.
• Docker and AWS experience is important.
• Nice to have - experience with distributed systems.

About Us

At RDX Works (formally Radix DLT), we're a team of like-minded thinkers who have long been convinced that we're living in the earliest stages of a global financial revolution. This revolution is being fuelled by decentralized finance (or DeFi for short), which is enabling an assortment of pioneering developers and entrepreneurs to re-invent almost every financial product that is currently traded and invested in traditional markets, without requiring central authorities or siloed infrastructure. DeFi has captured a great deal of attention and investment in the crypto-aware niche, growing assets under management from $1 billion to $40 billion in less than a year. Impressive as its growth has been, its current market size isn't even a rounding error on the over $111 trillion held in traditional finance. We're focused on what it will take to go from billions to trillions.

RDX went back to first principles to come up with the right technical solution—the first layer-one protocol built specifically for mainstream DeFi—and we have already tested out at over 1 million transactions per second. We're keenly aware that the need for an infinitely scalable platform is only one prerequisite among many for mass adoption, and we're also blazing new ground in the areas of purpose-built developer tools, user experiences, and regulatory integration.

We have forged a path deep into the future of what distributed ledger technology is going to look like and we need you to come and be part of the team that is making that happen right now.

Salary and compensation

Location