About Swirlds Labs:
We are a fast-growing company built around a revolutionary technology — the hashgraph consensus algorithm. Hedera Hashgraph is well-suited to become the world’s first mass-adopted distributed public ledger because it is blazing fast, highly secure, and ensures fairness. We are on a mission to create a trusted and empowered digital future for everyone; a cyberspace where you work, play, buy, sell, create, and engage socially; where you have safety and privacy in your digital communities; where you feel confident when interacting with others; where you own and control your information. Join us and say, “Hello future.”
About the role:
The Smart Contracts team is looking for a seasoned VM engineer who can contribute to the performance and optimization of the Hedera native services (Java) and the web3 services (JS/TS) that process and consume transaction bytes to transform the network node states.
You may find yourself doing all of the following:
- Designing, implementing, and innovating compiler and optimization algorithms
- Implementing and enhancing the Java and Node JS-based smart contract services on the Hedera network that expose EVM features
- Contributing to open source code clients that focus on VM state transitions based on contract bytecode with a goal of new feature support and performance improvements
- Contributing to the design and management of VM state processing parallelization
- Developing various aspects of the Hedera Hashgraph Distributed Ledger Ecosystem
- Being a strong and proficient hands-on programmer
- Spending 80% of your time designing, coding, and testing
Qualification Requirements:
- Experience with distributed open source application development
- Excellent debugging, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills
- Experience with compilers, parsers, interpreters, and garbage collectors
- Experience with performance, static code, and data-flow analysis
- Expertise in the Java programming language and its ecosystem of libraries and tools
- Deep knowledge of and experience with the Java VM, covering its strengths and weaknesses
- Strong grasp of Computer Science fundamentals, including concurrency, performance optimization, and reusability
- Strong engineering principles and processes aimed at developing simple, modular, testable, and high-quality code
- Familiarity with security principles, cryptographic tools, and libraries
- Familiarity with high-performance architectural systems and design patterns
- Familiarity with test-driven software development processes and continuous integration tools and systems
- Experience in developing libraries and platforms for use and deployment by application developers
- 7+ years of software development experience
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field or equivalent work experience
Other skills that are great to bring with you but that we can help you develop:
- Knowledge of the Ethereum blockchain
- Experience writing and debugging smart contracts for an EVM-based ledger
- Experience with web3 tools written in JavaScript or TypeScript
- Experience with blockchain (e.g., Bitcoin or Ethereum) protocol development is a plus
- EVM Client development
