Software Engineer: Decentralized Communication for dApps (DappConnect)

About Status

Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3.

With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.

As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community.

As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper).

As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 100+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe.

We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization’s priorities.

The role

The DappConnect Team is pushing for adoption of M2M (machine-to-machine) messagings for Dapps and Wallets. DappConnect is a suite of open-source JavaScript and TypeScript libraries designed to help developers add decentralized communication capabilities to their dApps.

We are enabling Ethereum builders to create new projects with a fully decentralized architecture, think dApp to Wallet notifications, NFT marketplaces, censorship-resistant chat, layer-2 and more.

This team undertakes a mix of development tasks and developer relations outreach activities:

• create the interfaces, components and tools to facilitate the usage of Waku, our decentralized communication protocol built on top of libp2p,
• promote and support dApp authors and 3rd party wallets in integrating Waku.

We are looking for software engineers that are passionate about Ethereum, decentralization and developer experience. and who would relish the opportunity to create a first class decentralised M2M messaging interface and toolkit and bring these new capabilities to DApp developers!

Ideally, you:

• Have passion for blockchain and decentralized technologies
• Love learning and understanding complex systems
• Understand how blockchain and decentralized systems work
• Have good communication skills (written and conversational)
• Enjoy writing for a developer audience (e.g. blogs and documentation)
• Are already familiar with the Ethereum community
• Have a strong alignment to our principles

Bonus points if you have experience:

• With js-libp2p or other libp2p implementations
• In Web development (JavaScript, TypeScript, etc)
• In dApp development experience (Solidity)
• working for an open source organization
• In Developer Experience, building tools and libraries for developers
• Speaking at developer conferences
• Working remotely

Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter.

Job duties

• Defining and documenting TypeScript/JavaScript libraries
• Create example dApps that uses DappConnect libraries
• Create SDKs for common use cases
• Build PoCs to demonstrate DappConnect’s capabilities
• Write guides and blog posts for an audience of dApp & Wallet developers
• Implement new protocols as defined by the Protocol Team
• Support dApp developers
• Seek partnerships with 3rd party dApp vendors
• Speak at conferences and run workshops (both online and real world) to introduce devs to DappConnect

Compensation

We offer a competitive compensation package (paid in local currency, or crypto, and dependent on experience & location), plus a grant of Status Network Tokens. More info on SNT here. The role is open worldwide and we offer a range of benefits such as open vacation policy and co-working space allowance.

Who are we?

We’re a remote team made up of ~85 core contributors and a growing number of community members scattered around the globe. We care deeply about open source software, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization’s priorities.

Get to know us

Learn more about the Waku M2M product strategy here.

The DappConnect project roadmap and codebase can be found here.

The waku specs can be found here

About Status.im

As a team, Status is completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 85+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members scattered all around the globe.

We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization’s priorities.

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