**This position is based in our Toronto, ON office, near  Union Station **

Polymath is an interface between financial securities and the blockchain, helping issuers to overcome the complex technical and legal challenges related to issuing regulated securities on the blockchain. We are a team of start-up veterans, legal experts, finance professionals, and all-star developers looking to hire a Blockchain Engineer to join our growing team.  You will be a critical engineer on all blockchain related development at Polymath.  

Responsibilities:

• Be the key contributor and guide development and improvements relating to securities specialized blockchain technologies;


• Act as a technical expert when Polymath engages with other technical experts in the research, specification & implementation of blockchain technology;


• Keep up to date with the latest developments in blockchain research, especially in areas  related to privacy, consensus mechanisms and identity;


• Co-authoring the technical sections of the white paper or other research papers related to advancements in blockchain made at Polymath;


• Contribute to the solution’s end-to-end architecture, including where each key capability needs to be implemented (layer 1, side-chain, smart contract, etc.) for adaptability and scalability.

Qualifications:

• Previously actively involved in a project that developed a new blockchain, either from scratch or by modifying existing blockchains;


• Deep understanding of various consensus protocols (PoW, PoS, Tendermint, Raft, PBFT, ALGORAND, etc.);


• Experience building synchronous and asynchronous models, their quirks and workarounds in distributed systems;


• Minimum 6 years technical background;


• Excellent communication skills, ability to simplify technical data into crystal clear ideas;


• Creative and entrepreneurial person with excellent teamwork skills and startup attitude;


• Ability to see the big picture vision and translate it into finely detailed development plans;


• Understanding of basic cryptography (ECDSA, PKI).


• Experience with building systems in Go or Rust

Nice To Have:

• Experience building parsers/compilers for backends such as LLVM, EVM or other VMs;


• PhD with background in distributed system, cryptography;


• Published technical papers or articles on related topics.