Golang / Go Job: Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at Algorand

🇺🇸 United States › Massachusetts › Boston   (Posted Sep 4 2021)

About the company
Algorand is building the technology to power the Future of Finance (FutureFi), the convergence of traditional and decentralized models into a unified system that is inclusive, frictionless, and secure. Founded by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, Algorand developed a blockchain infrastructure that offers the interoperability and capacity to handle the volume of transactions needed for decentralized finance (DeFi), financial institutions, and governments to smoothly transition into FutureFi. The technology of choice for more than 500 global organizations, Algorand is enabling the simple creation of next-generation financial products, protocols and exchange of value.

Do they allow remote work?
Remote work is possible, see the description below for more information.

Job description
Senior Software Engineer (Boston, Mass. & Remote, U.S.)

Algorand builds technology that accelerates the convergence between decentralized and traditional finance. At Algorand, we have a vision where everyone creates and exchanges value efficiently, transparently and securely. Our Employees play a critical role in executing on this vision with their ability to think beyond, have courage in all they do, succeed together, and tackle hard problems creatively.

We are looking for intellectually curious Software Engineers to play an important role in the development and implementation of Algorand’s blockchain and cryptocurrency products. Your ideas and your innovation will help shape the new blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem of tomorrow. Our Engineers are generalists, but with interest and focus on infrastructure, our core protocol, and distributed computing. We currently work in Go (https://golang.org/), and our projects are open-sourced.

This is an opportunity for someone who is genuinely excited by new technologies and has a passion for building products that will serve millions of users. You will be working on a fast-paced, rapidly growing, high-profile project with a significant opportunity for industry-level impact on emerging blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies. Our state-of-the-art headquarters is located in Boston, Mass. and has been updated with all of the latest safety features. We love to work with New England talent and relocate people to the area; however, we are happy to talk to candidates across the United States to discuss remote opportunities.

This Job is For You if You’re:
Genuinely excited to solve complex problems
Passionate about blockchain technology and/or cryptocurrency
Obsessed with building products that millions of users will touch
Interested in remote and in-office flexibility

Our Senior Software Engineers:
Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale, and security; translate these ideas into technical designs and implementation
Are hands-on coders applying the best industry standards for code health, security, scalability, and robustness
Are a key part of an inclusive environment that fosters collaboration and creativity both internally and externally

Your Qualifications & Our Requirements:
Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related technical field (level and depth of responsibilities will be adjusted for Master’s/PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field)
Five-plus years of experience working on and shipping complex applications as part of a team; advanced education will be considered (in extraordinary cases)
Experience in any of the following: distributed systems, secure coding, network coding, performance optimizations
Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Go, Java, C/C++, C#, and Rust
Experience contributing to major open source software projects will be considered favorably
Experience as a technical influencer for highly scalable distributed system designs preferred

Why Join Algorand?
Disruptive Technology
Visionary Leadership
Collegial and Collaborative Culture
Transformative Industry
Global Impact

Some Of Our Benefits
Healthcare Plans & Premiums

Algorand provides company-sponsored Medical and Dental programs and covers the full premium cost of Medical and Dental contributions. Employees only have to cover copayments (including prescription costs) and any other healthcare costs incurred outside of the plan.
Paid Time-off

We have a flexible paid time-off approach for our full-time, exempt Employees — in short, take what you need, when you need it. In practice, this relies on the good judgment of our employees to balance their personal time-off with their workplace responsibilities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Parking/Transportation Reimbursement

We reimburse our employees up to $300 per month for parking fees or public transportation costs.

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