Blockchain Engineer

Mav Farm is a technology company headquartered in Los Angeles, California with a remote and distributed team, that designs and develops enterprise and consumer media, commerce, and financial software and services. We provide tools for artists, creators, app developers, and businesses to collaborate with one another to captivate audiences and human-machines in creative, engaging, and unobtrusive ways - that is, sans advertising. These creators are building media companies, brands and retail companies, tech companies, and all of the above together with Mav Farm. Mav Farm considers itself part e-commerce platform, part entertainment app, part business tool, part financial solution, and part social network, meeting multifaceted creator and audience needs through distinct yet synergistic features.

Mav Farm was founded with the goal of a fully decentralized peer-to-peer art, media and trade network - that is, to provide artists, creators, organizations and businesses access to and complete control of the universal decentralized distribution of their art, media and commerce.

There are over 600k users watching and shopping from over 500 of their favorite creators, cultural influencers, and brands. Not only is Mav Farm helping creators and businesses earn more for their efforts, but is also helping their audiences find new people, brands, and stories to engage with in unique and uncompromising ways.

Mav Farm is looking for a passionate and experienced distributed systems engineer to join a team of experts to implement a new blockchain architecture for Mav Farm, decreasing transaction time and cost for the Mav Farm ecosystem, while enabling new functionality. This role is ideal for engineers who are experts in peer-to-peer protocol development, familiar with the bitcoin blockchain, and keen to build a clean-slate system from the ground up. Our goal is the deployment of a working testnet, successfully design the Mav Farm Blockchain, such that it can support benchmark use-cases of Mav Farm's decentralized applications, and a successful launch of the Mav Farm Blockchain, measured in the transaction bandwidth of the Mav Farm network

Responsibilities

• Research, strategize and educate on methodology and best practices for blockchain design, implementation, and deployment
• Collaborate with a team and open source community to design and build the Mav Farm blockchain with the following design goals:
• Decreased transaction times and costs
• Programmable payment systems
• Programmable name management systems
• Hybrid on-chain/off-chain programming models
• Custom per-namespace consensus algorithms
• Protocols for enacting soft forks
• Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure
• Design and implement blockchain supporting tools and utilities (e.g., CLI client, tools for exploring the blockchain, monitoring, benchmarking or debugging tools)

Qualifications

• You have worked with a founding team building a blockchain, are an expert in decentralized solutions, and are passionate about our mission of building a new decentralized internet.
• Expert knowledge of peer-to-peer distributed system design and implementation, including familiarity with state-of-the-art academic literature on the subject and practical knowledge on engineering successful peer-to-peer systems.
• Experience in the low-level implementation and protocol details of a widely-deployed public blockchain
• Strong background in security-oriented system design, with a focus on applied cryptography
• Must be able to identify and defend against plausible protocol-level and network-level attacks on the system.
• Strong programming skills and familiarity with programming languages and technologies - C++, Python 2, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solidity, Simplicity, Go, Rust
• Experience deploying Bitcoin infrastructure, like UTXO providers and block explorers
• Passion for building the new internet for decentralized apps
• Strong problem solving skills, ability to think fast and thoroughly
• Excellent communication

Our employees, who have named themselves Mavericks and Farmers, are everything. Because of our ability to attract the most talented, intelligent, and creative technologists, scientists, artists, designers and business people across the world, Mav Farm naturally remains highly "unmanageable." In this unmanaged chaos, we have been delighted by the work that has been produced by these Mavericks and Farmers.

We have been lucky to recruit many creative, principled and hard working leaders and we hope to recruit many more in the future. We are a distributed collective of pioneers, a farm of mavericks, seeking both individual freedom and community. Mav Farm emphasizes creative exploration above everything else, which has helped us provide artists, creators, and businesses access to complete control over the universal distribution of their art, goods, and services.

Join us on our mission to free the universes' art!

Learn more about our about our hiring/interview process and a teaser about what it's like working at Mav Farm here.