Blockchain Engineer

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. As a blockchain engineer at Penrose, you will help architect and build the economic infrastructure that powers our user-driven virtual worlds.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a massively scalable backend system and assist developing the project architecture.
  • Build and maintain server code bases.
  • Collaborate with client-side developers and the content team.
  • Identify and resolve issues with security and reliability of back-end systems.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 8 years of programming experience.
  • Experience developing the large-scale backend system for real world applications.
  • Strong knowledge of C++, Python, C, C#, or Java.
  • Experience with a variety of backend & database technologies and with making architectural trade-offs.
  • Comfortable wandering around unexplored application / game design / virtual world territory, and excited to contribute to refining ideas.
  • Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively.

Recommended Experience

  • Blockchain experience (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, etc.).
  • Experience developing in Golding, Docker, Postgres, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra.
  • Expertise in breaking down a large-scale architecture into its component micro services.
  • History of building financial systems, security systems, or other systems where a high degree of dependability is critical.

 Penrose is based in San Francisco, and also operates remotely.