Blockchain Engineer

Job description

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About the Role

The Blockchain Engineering team is responsible for designing all on-chain infrastructure for Kya, and building blockchain decentralized apps and features.

In order to excel in this role, you should:

• Collaborating with the Product Engineering team and Backend Engineering team to determine blockchain technology needs and envisaged functionalities.
• Creating decentralized application features and interfaces and writing multithreaded codes.
• Applying the latest cryptology techniques to protect digital transaction data against cyberattacks and information hacks.
• Maintaining client and server-side applications.
• Optimizing and securing blockchain applications by integrating new tools and technologies.
• Educating marketing and CS engineer personnel on blockchain features that allow secure digital payments.
• Documenting blockchain development processes and complying with best practices in data protection.
• Keeping up with current blockchain technologies and cryptography methods.

You will excel in this role if you have:

• At least 3 years of experience as a blockchain developer.
• Advanced proficiency in programming languages, such as Solidity, Rust, C++, Java, and Python.
• Extensive experience in back-end development, algorithms, and data structures.
• Knowledge of cryptography and blockchain protocols.
• In-depth knowledge of best practices in blockchain management and data protection.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Superb organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Candidates with experience working on major public blockchain projects preferred.

About Kya Inc.

Kya is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

At Kya, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Benefits and Perks

• Mental health and wellness support
• Flexible remote work policy
• Generous time off policy
• Paid parental leave and family-planning support
• Annual learning & development stipend

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses. Pursuant to the NewYork Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via our careers email.