Blockchain Engineer

Loyyal is the Internet of Loyalty, on a mission to connect the largest loyalty programs across the world. Leveraging blockchain and smart contract technology, we provide a common ground for interoperability, accelerate the speed at which customers can earn and redeem value, give tools to programs to fine-tune incentivization, and smartly react to the varied interests and behaviors of customers.

By joining the Loyyal team, you are entering the cutting edge and rapid-changing world of blockchain technology, working collaboratively with a close-knit team to connect the world’s largest loyalty programs. As a member of a Loyyal, you will receive an equity share and market rate salary, company adventures, global travel, and the freedom to have ownership and direction over your work. Of course, medical benefits too.

Role

We’re solving challenging technical problems including observability, reliability and performance of distributed networks, distributed identity management and transaction synchronization across disparate platforms. We’re looking for enthusiastic and talented engineers to join our tight-knit team to help us tackle the hard problems at the frontiers of distributed systems.

You will work closely on a daily basis with our CEO as his technology counterpart. Both of you will be located in our Dubai office.

At your desk you’ll quickly craft (or remind yourself of) your objectives for the day using asynchronous goal tracking tools. Then you’ll get straight to work. At Loyyal you own your time and push forward to achieve the goals of the company that are most important at the time. Today you could do any of the following:

• performance test a blockchain;
• improve the readability of Go code;
• hire more engineers;
• fix a Kafka / Zookeeper configuration issue;
• design a distributed identity management system;
• improve production support of the Loyyal platform;
• improve observability of a distributed system with log aggregation, alerts, metrics, and traces;
• migrate a monolith to microservice architecture in Go;
• and much more!

Whatever you’re doing, chances are you’re learning something new and expanding your skill set.

At the end of every day you’ll have pushed forward the goals of the company in a concrete way. What’s more you’ll have made Loyyal’s vision of revolutionizing the loyalty industry by reducing barriers to entry and enabling novel functionality that much brighter and closer.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of experience in and passion for Go
• You have familiarity with and passion for blockchain technology
• Specific working knowledge/expertise in Kafka/Zookeeper
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services
• You’re passionate about blockchain and distributed ledger technology
• You’ve worked in a startup environment previously
• Located in our Dubai office
• Extensive travel may be required

Bonus Points

• You’re on top of latest Go and blockchain best practices
• Cryptography and identity management knowledge