Principal EVM Software Engineer - Smart Contracts Team

Career Renew; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is recruiting a Principal EVM Software Engineer for the Smart Contracts Team, focusing on optimizing performance and enhancing services in a fully-remote setting. This role involves designing and implementing complex algorithms, contributing to open-source projects, and requires deep knowledge of EVM-based blockchains and Java.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Strong experience with compilers, parsers, interpreters.
• Expertise in the Java programming language.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing compiler and optimization algorithms.
• Enhancing Java and Node JS-based smart contract services.
• Contributing to open source code clients focusing on VM state transitions.

Skills

Distributed open-source application development

Performance analysis

Java programming

EVM knowledge

Debugging smart contracts

Tools

Hotspot JVM

GraalVM

Job description

Career 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 native 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 language, 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.