Position: Senior Java Blockchain Developer - Remote & English Speaking
Company: RemoteStar
Category: Java
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Remote working is the new norm. Do you want to avoid a daily commute, reduce stress, achieve work-life balance, spend more time with your family, be more creative and improve productivity? At RemoteStar, we follow a remote-first work policy. If you’re passionate about working from home or a nearby co-working space with leading start-ups and scale-ups, RemoteStar can be a great fit. At RemoteStar we help both employers and employees to build a great remote-team culture, reduce overheads and improve productivity.
 
About Role - Remote Senior Java Blockchain Developer
 
A London based Start-up is building an innovative and disruptive Blockchain platform.  This is a fully remote role and requires fluency in written and verbal English. Working in small teams you'll work closely with our clients on their Blockchain projects and deliver increased value to the Blockchain community with our software.

You will be reporting directly to the CTO based in Cambridge, UK. As Senior Java Developer, you’ll participate in all development aspects of the solution. This is a full-time permanent role for a true self-starter. 

As our Senior Java Blockchain Developer, you’ll be responsible for
Demonstrable development track record - active GitHub profiles are great, but we appreciate not everyone gets to work on OSS, so we'll need to understand what you've done previously
Great communication skills - you need to be happy to collaborate with your peers and speak with our clients
Used to working in an agile environment - we follow an agile methodology for delivery and use continuous delivery pipelines
Keen to work with other technologies - although your primary role will entail Java development, you should be just as happy to work with Kotlin and get your hands dirty with deployment pipelines and other challenges that present themselves.
Self-starter - we're a remote team, so you need to be very comfortable working remotely and getting teh most out of collaboration tools such as Zoom, Slack, Trello.

What do we value?
Strong Java skills and ideally good working knowledge of at least one other programming language
Java development frameworks such as Spring
Blockchain development ideally with Solidity, but also CorDapps or ChainCode.
Blockchain platforms ideally Ethereum/ConsenSys Quorum/Hyperledger Besu, but also R3 Corda
Familiarity with Web3j will be useful
Comfortable working with Docker and ideally Kubernetes too
Data storage - SQL and NoSQL based stores
Middleware technologies such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
Cloud platforms - Azure or AWS




What is on offer?
Participate in an open, fun, entrepreneurial and creative company culture 
Global organisation and international opportunities
Work from the location of your choice
Competitive Salary
Feature ownership — combine data and customer feedback to create meaningful solutions to the everyday problems our users face.
Unlimited annual leave; we do our best work when we’re feeling refreshed so take the time you need to relax! 
Flexible working — we trust you to work whenever and wherever you feel most productive.
Found a great book, meetup or conference? We’ll pay for the tools and resources to support your continued learning!
It’s important to stay healthy, so we’ll pay towards your gym membership or fitness apps, and have Self Space appointments available
BYOD – You are welcome to work from your own choice of laptop



Who are we?

We are RemoteStar, a team of experienced engineering and people managers on a mission to transform the future of work. 

We’re not your typical workplace. At RemoteStar, we believe in data-driven decision making and the importance of flexibility, fun, passion, personal growth, and transparency. And we’re doing everything we can to make sure you’re enjoying every minute you spend with us.
Here at RemoteStar, we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. Everyone is welcome. We don’t discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic including race, religion or belief, gender or gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability. We want to facilitate everyone in bringing their best selves to our interviews, so if there are any adjustments we can make for our process to be more inclusive, please let us know. 

Additionally, trust and privacy are key to our success at RemoteStar, so we would like to let you know that in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, upon submitting an application, your CV and personal details will be added to our database and may be used to match you to any future, suitable vacancies as they arise. Of course, we will remove your details at any time should you wish us to do so.