\nAbout Status\nStatus is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. \nWith the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.\nAs an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. \nAs a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol; the p2p communication layer for Web3.\nAs a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. \nWe care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.\n\nAbout Status Network\n\nStatus Network is a forward-looking zkEVM L2 rollup on Ethereum tailored for social applications and seamless access to DeFi yield opportunities for everyone. Status Network is dedicated to providing an open playground for communities to build on and thrive, while also incentivising liquidity thanks to a native yield market. We are deeply committed to decentralisation, with a focus on minimising censorship risks and preserving the right to privacy.\n\nStatus Network is tightly integrated within the broader IFT ecosystem. The IFT is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, collaborative and open internet, which includes the Status app. \n\nStatus Network is set to become a settlement layer for these different protocols and social applications, offering the most seamless and open social infrastructure to build truly onchain organisations. Status Network will bring direct utility to the SNT token with upgraded tokenomics taking into account sequencer revenues.\n\nThe role\n\nThe L2 Lead Developer at Status Network will be responsible for the comprehensive deployment and ongoing operation of this new zkEVM L2 rollup. This role includes full oversight of the infrastructure setup in collaboration with a RaaS (Rollup as a Service) provider and other infrastructure partners. The Lead Developer will manage the integration of essential third-party partners required for the blockchain's operation, including but not limited to bridges, RPC endpoint providers, developers tooling, blockchain indexers and explorers, and fiat-to-crypto gateways, with a focus on delivering the smoothest developer experience.\n\nThis position offers a unique opportunity to lead the engineering efforts for the launch and subsequent growth of a groundbreaking zk L2 rollup. You will be at the forefront of developing a platform that not only supports decentralised applications but also integrates social and financial functionalities deeply within its architecture, paving the way for a new era of onchain social interaction and economic exchange.\n\nIf you are driven by innovation in blockchain technology, eager to lead a cutting-edge project, and passionate about decentralisation and privacy, this role will provide you with the perfect platform to make a significant impact.\n\nKey responsibilities:\n\n\n* Spearhead the implementation, launch, and ongoing development of a new zkEVM L2 rollup on Ethereum.\n\n* Oversee the entire infrastructure for the L2 rollup, collaborating with our RaaS and infra providers to ensure high reliability and performance.\n\n* Manage technical integrations with external third-party providers as well as internal teams, including adapting Nimbus client software for the rollup and working with the Status App client teams for application integration.\n\n* Collaborate on the codebase of our L2 stack partner to innovate and enhance the security and performance of our zkEVM rollup stack.\n\n* Drive the development process of Status Network by establishing rigorous testing protocols on testnets and mainnet, implementing best practices in coding, security, and system design, and coordinating deployment processes to ensure the rollup's integrity and availability at launch.\n\n* Engage with the community and developers through outreach, documentation, and support to encourage adoption and feedback for continuous improvement.\n\n* Lead, mentor, and expand our team of developers and engineers, promoting a culture of innovation and collaboration.\n\n\n\n\nYou will ideally have:\n\n\n* Strong experience in the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly with L2 solutions like zkEVM rollups.\n\n* Advanced knowledge of Solidity programming and a deep understanding of blockchain mechanics.\n\n* Proven track record of leading software development teams, with experience successfully managing cross-functional teams.\n\n* History of contributing to or leading open-source projects.\n\n* Expertise in cloud infrastructure management, especially with AWS, including configuring and managing scalable and secure environments suitable for blockchain applications\n\n* Proficient in setting up and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes, especially in the context of open-source software.\n\n* Experience with implementing and managing decentralised and distributed systems, demonstrating a robust understanding of the challenges and solutions specific to these environments.\nA hands-on approach and technical proficiency in troubleshooting, optimising, and innovating blockchain solutions under various constraint\nExperience with various blockchain infrastructures and applications, including node operation, blockchain explorer integration, DeFi and NFT lending protocols, and cross-chain bridge mechanisms.\n\n* Understanding of other blockchain and cryptographic technologies, including consensus algorithms, DeFi smart contract security, and network protocols.\n\n* A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.app/manifesto\n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points:\n\n\n* Degen\n\n* Comfort with remote and asynchronous work environments\n\n* A passionate advocate for the Ethereum community and the broader ethos of open-source contribution\n\n* Enthusiasm for decentralisation and a personal drive to promote censorship resistance within the crypto space\n\n\n\n\n[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].\n\nHiring process:\n\n\n* Interview with our People Ops team\n\n* Interview with IFT Team Member\n\n* Interview with IFT Team Member\n\n* Interview with Program Lead\n\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\nThe expected compensation range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process). We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Defi, Crypto, Testing, Cloud and Node jobs that are similar:\n\n $87,500 — $167,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote (Worldwide)

\nCompany Background:\n\nThe Giving Block, a Shift4 company, is the platform helping nonprofits fundraise more effectively from modern philanthropists. Pioneers of the “Crypto Philanthropy” movement, The Giving Block developed the leading solutions for cryptocurrency donations, taking crypto and NFT donations mainstream in the nonprofit sector. The Giving Block’s team then developed a stock giving experience built to empower even more donors to give non-cash assets. When combined, The Giving Block’s product suite empowers more donors than ever to give assets to their favorite causes. Today, thousands of nonprofits are using The Giving Block to fundraise from modern philanthropists. Learn more about The Giving Block here.\n\nShift4 Payments (NYSE: FOUR) is a leading provider of integrated payment processing and technology solutions, delivering a complete omnichannel ecosystem that extends beyond payments to include a wide range of value-added services. The company’s technologies help power over 350 software providers in numerous industries, including hospitality, retail, F&B, e-commerce, lodging, gaming, nonprofits, and many more. With over 7,000 sales partners, the company securely processed more than 3.5 billion transactions annually for over 200,000 businesses in 2019. For more information, visit shift4.com. \n\nShift4’s entry into the nonprofit market began when our CEO raised $243 million for St. Jude as part of his trip to space. Soon after, we acquired The Giving Block, the leader in Crypto Philanthropy. Now we’re expanding to formally offer a full range of payment processing products and services to the nonprofit industry.\n\nSummary:\n\nWe are looking for talented Backed End developer to join our engineering team. You will be working in one of our international Scrum teams in a fast-paced “startup like” environment, participating in development of Core services, working on new features and integrations, taking part in all Scrum team activities, you will be not only doing hands on development and also making technical decisions and designing technical solutions. We need someone who is smart and proactive in taking ownership and seeing problems through to resolution, responsible and self-managed, but at the same time a good team player.\n\nJob Responsibilities:\n\n\nWork with founders and senior leadership to bring ideas to life\n\nContinue developing the core product and infrastructure\n\nExample projects: \n\n\n\nCreating internal and external dashboards\n\nClient self-service portal\n\nDonation widget and fundraising platform updates\n\nPartner integrations\n\nDesigning, building and maintaining end-to-end backend services using TypeScript, Node.js and our company's framework.\n\nWriting well-structured, maintainable, and efficient code along with unit tests.\n\nIntegrations with third-party APIs, development of our public API.\n\nResearch and analyze epic tasks and collaborate with the product team.\n\n\n\nEnsure security and quality of backend services as we deal with our client's money.\n\nProvide production support, troubleshooting and bug fixing.\n\nStorage layer: design DB schema, SQL query writing, query performance analysis.\n\nWork in Agile team using Scrum methodology, participate in all sprint activities, grooming sprint backlog, estimation of sprint tasks, creation of technical solutions etc.\n\nCollaborate with the development team, QAs and product team on system improvements and selection of tools and technologies, code review.\n\nAssist the team in creating and maintaining tech documentation.\n\n\n\n\nCompetencies:\n\n\n4+ years of experience as a back-end developer with at least 2-3 recent years of experience with NodeJS\n\nExperience with TypeScript\n\nYou are skilled in SQL databases, OOP, SOLID, system design, design patterns and GRASP\n\nA thorough understanding of writing secure code and an awareness of common security vulnerabilities in web applications\n\nStrong communication skills in English \n\nReact JS\n\nGood understanding about React JS app architecture\n\nRest API\n\nDeep understanding of JavaScript \n\nWeb security\n\nCSS-in-JS\n\nTypeScript\n\nExperience with React JavaScript framework a plus \n\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n\n\nKnowledge of PostgreSQL, cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud), message queue (RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Kafka), Docker\n\nYou have designed and developed web services or/and done integrations with third party APIs\n\nExperience in production support (troubleshooting, bug fixing)\n\nInterest in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and/or non-profits\n\nAnalytical and problem solving skills\n\nGood understanding of  Web Security Vulnerabilities and best practices\n\nExperience with agile product development\n\nExperience with Jira software (or similar platforms) a plus \n\nSelf-starter with an ability to learn new concepts quickly\n\n\n\n\n \n\nThis is a fully remote position, candidates from European time zones are highly welcome.\n\nPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Crypto, NFT, React, JavaScript, Cloud, Senior, Sales and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLondon, England, United Kingdom