CoW DAO is currently hiring a Web3 Backend Engineer (Rust). As a dedicated backend engineer, you will gain ownership of our existing backend services and influence the creation, design and execution of future features and products. You will work on technically challenging aspects of our off-chain services and our developer-facing APIs and help ensure the delivery of reliable and performant features to improve CoW Protocol.
Job Description
We are a fully remote team, and although we hire globally, there is a preference for this role to be based in Europe or remote +/- 4 hours CEST time.
Responsibilities
- Architect and design our off-chain services (core auction protocol as well as the orderbook) to support feature growth and the rapidly changing requirements that come from being an application on a constantly evolving blockchain.
- While your focus will be writing concurrent backend systems in Rust, you will also interact with our Smart Contracts written in Solidity and develop your understanding of auction mechanisms and DeFi protocols
- Work closely with researchers and the product team to ship features and come up with new solutions for challenging technical problems
- Deliver high-quality code for features from concept until production (including state-of-the-art monitoring of our production systems)
- Help our engineering team maintain and improve the reliability of the existing features and join in the on-call rotation
- Give thoughtful and in-depth code reviews of your colleagues’ contributions to our open-source codebase
Qualifications
- You have at least 1 year + of productional experience with Rust (experience with C++ is a great bonus)
- You have excellent computer science, programming and algorithmic skills
- Experience in web3 (ideally DeFi and Ethereum blockchain)
- Experience with operating, maintaining and architecting complex software systems
- You care deeply about the quality, readability, observability and testability of your code
- You proactively give technical direction to improve performance, prevent issues, optimise data usage and refactor the codebase
- You are a team player, strong communicator and gladly share your expertise with others
- You collaborate effectively with a remote-first team on a large, open-source codebase
- Ideally someone senior who can mentor colleagues and provide direction. You are excited to explore and gain experience with Ethereum
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Use our learning budget to support your higher ambitions
- Take advantage of a hardware budget for acquiring necessary equipment
- Flexible work and vacation times
- If you’re someone who loves taking the initiative and getting things done, CoW offers lots of opportunities for your individual growth