### Overview
> Blockchains do not scale to a global user-base of seven billion people.
Core engineering at Heliax focuses on building, extending, and maintaining
decentralized, permissionless, and censorship-resistant protocols in Rust. We
are looking for an experienced technical engineering manager interested in
leading a team to create high-quality open-source technology and solve
outstanding problems in the blockchain space. As a technical engineering
manager, your team will be working on distributed ledger technology
implemented in Rust, all the way up and down the stack from the P2P layer to
consensus algorithms, smart contract systems, proof-of-stake incentive
mechanisms, interoperability protocols, and gossip networks. This role offers
the chance to work closely on compelling cross-disciplinary problems in
computer science, systems engineering, cryptography, and economics, and enjoy
a high degree of independence in working conditions and prioritization.
### Responsibilities
* Collaborating on sustainable open-source stewardship for the Anoma Github repository, creating contribution guidelines, reviewing public code submissions, answering community questions, and coordinating open-source collaborators along with the internal team
* Managing engineering efforts to implement new features such as proof-of-stake and interblockchain communication, address potential performance bottlenecks, and improve internal software quality
* Working closely with other teams in Heliax, including cryptography and distributed systems, to integrate their research into the ledger, intent gossip node, and matchmaker
* Keeping an ever-vigilant eye on security considerations, ensuring that contributions (both internal and external) receive adequate review, and coordinating with ecosystem stakeholders to handle security incidents when they occur
* Supporting individual engineers in their work and professional development, through knowledge sharing, regular one-on-ones, and feedback sessions
### Qualifications
* Experience managing engineering teams, especially ones working on a cutting-edge, complex, real-world software product with security-critical safety considerations
* Expertise in systems design and an appropriate taste for simplicity, both in internal abstraction structure and in choice of third-party dependencies
* Top-notch communications skills, clear written prose, and talent for working with a diverse range of contributors and users and synthesizing different perspectives
* Experience in open-source development, stewardship, and/or maintenance, especially for a piece of software with substantial community involvement and a diverse contributor base
* A working familiarity with the Rust programming language
* A high degree of personal responsibility and ownership: you’ll be responsible for setting deadlines and holding yourself and your team accountable to them
### Bonus Qualifications
* Prior experience with distributed systems
* Prior experience with network and systems engineering
* Prior experience with database design and optimization
* Prior experience in blockchain technology
* Prior experience implementing cryptography
### Misc
Remote or local (Zürich/Zug, Berlin). When remote, preferred if mostly located
within (+/- 7 hours) Central European time zones. Ideally someone who enjoys
nature and hiking 🏔️.
Anoma focuses on Open Source, Blockchains, and Blockchain / Cryptocurrency.
Their company has offices in Berlin, Zug, and Remote. They have a small team
that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at <https://anoma.network/>
