Position: Founding Protocol Engineer
Company: Alcor
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

The internet gave us freedom of information. Crypto gives us economic freedom. Come help us combine these technologies so that every human across the world can achieve freedom and opportunity no matter where they were born.

Through combining our long-term vision for how these technologies will impact society with consistent, pragmatic execution our team of 5 built a platform that has already processed over $70M leading to our $18M fundraise from top investors including Pantera, Two Sigma Ventures, Coinbase Ventures alongside angel investors including Stani Kulechov (founder of Aave), Sandeep Nailwal (cofounder of Polygon) and more.

If you are looking to join a passionate, motivated team and leverage your engineering abilities to develop software that levels the playing field for people across the globe join us at Recursive. We’re building a future that re-centers the individual in the internet.

**About the Role**

A founding protocol engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of foundational components of Recursive's stack, spanning infrastructure and backend, while also having responsibilities to collaborate with the wider engineering team to improve our overall architecture and code quality.

While full-stack engineers are focused on smart contract and application development, protocol engineers are focused on node software and infrastructure. However, these are not strict rules – our team is small and flat, and there will be opportunities to contribute across the stack.

**Responsibilities:**

Develop our core software stack from the design stage all the way to production-ready implementations. Primarily in Golang.
Design, build, maintain, test, and improve our node software and coordinating agents to power our distributed networks
Implement and optimize CI/CD to improve build and test times. Detect and improve performance, and stability for microservices.
Improve the design of peer’s architecture through thoughtful, professionally communicated feedback.
Write performant SDKs and documentation enabling clients to interact with the Web3 APIs
Contribute to open-source projects and play a role in building out the crypto ecosystem at large.

**Requirements:**

3-7 years of experience in a backend software engineering role
Significant experience with a systems language like Go (preferred), Rust, or C++
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Extensive experience managing the software development life cycle for medium to large projects
Experience building SDKs, APIs, or otherwise building and maintaining a production system at scale
Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud providers
Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development and crypto, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services


We are a mission-driven company. We believe deeply that through software engineering we can build a self-sovereign society. In our day to day, we make decisions based on our company values of Individual Autonomy, Long-Term Orientation, and Open Access.

The future belongs to all of us, independent of our origins. Recursive is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender, or any other status protected under federal, state or local law. We celebrate diversity and inclusion among our teammates and seek to hire talent that will add to our culture.