Blockchain Engineer

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. As a blockchain engineer at Penrose, you will help architect and build the economic infrastructure that powers our user-driven virtual worlds.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a massively scalable backend system and assist developing the project architecture.
• Build and maintain server code bases.
• Collaborate with client-side developers and the content team.
• Identify and resolve issues with security and reliability of back-end systems.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of programming experience.
• Experience developing the large-scale backend system for real world applications.
• Strong knowledge of C++, Python, C, C#, or Java.
• Experience with a variety of backend & database technologies and with making architectural trade-offs.
• Comfortable wandering around unexplored application / game design / virtual world territory, and excited to contribute to refining ideas.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively.

Recommended Experience

• Blockchain experience (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, etc.).
• Experience developing in Golding, Docker, Postgres, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra.
• Expertise in breaking down a large-scale architecture into its component micro services.
• History of building financial systems, security systems, or other systems where a high degree of dependability is critical.