Principal EVM Software Engineer - Smart Contracts Team

ZipRecruiter; New York (NY); Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Principal EVM Software Engineer for its Smart Contracts Team. This fully-remote position entails designing compiler algorithms, enhancing smart contract services, and improving EVM performance. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in software development and a strong background in blockchain technologies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Strong experience with distributed open-source application development.
• Expertise in Java programming and VM ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and innovating compiler and optimization algorithms.
• Implementing and enhancing the Java and Node JS-based smart contract services.
• Contributing to the design and management of EVM state processing parallelization.

Skills

Java

EVM-based blockchain

Open-source development

Compiler design

Performance analysis

Job description

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionCareer Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Principal EVM Software Engineer - Smart Contracts Team - this is a fully-remote US-based job.

The Smart Contracts team is looking for a seasoned EVM engineer who can contribute to the performance and optimization of the services (Java) and the web3 services (JS/TS) that process transaction bytes to transform the network node states and expose network block, transaction, and account data.

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 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 EVM state processing parallelization

• Developing various aspects of the Distributed Ledger Ecosystem

• Being a strong and proficient hands-on programmer

• Spending 80% of your time designing, coding, and testing

Requirements:

7+ years of software development experience & Strong experience with distributed open-source application development.

Must have experience with compilers, parsers, interpreters, and garbage collectors & experience with performance, static code, and data-flow analysis.

Expertise in the Java programming , VM, and its ecosystem of libraries and tools.

Deep knowledge of and experience with an EVM-based blockchain & Experience writing and debugging smart contracts for an EVM-based ledger.

Hotspot JVM or GraalVM experience.