Responsibilties
- You will design, implement and test Solana on-chain programs, written in Rust
- Bring Solana on-chain knowledge, best practices, experience and idiomatic thinking to bear on the architecture, design and implementation of the Corda / Solana integration
- Leverage the Solana existing ecosystem and community to accelerate implementation and delivery
- You will contribute to the technical direction of Solana engineering at R3
- You will mentor and assist other engineers, enabling them to understand your approach to understanding and solving problems, and help them upskill and thrive in the Solana on-chain ecosystem
- You will learn, understand and develop Corda, R3’s private DLT product
- You will use developed and comprehensive judgment to make decisions of complexity
- Maintaining a security focussed adversarial mindset during design and development, working with our internal security team and security audit vendors
- Collaborate with fellow engineers within the team and organisation by developing technical plans and contributing to technical architecture
- You will hone your business analysis skills to interact with the product management team to marry technical delivery and product requirements
- You will develop customer focus skills to anticipate internal/external customer requests
Required Skills
- In-depth knowledge of the Solana eco system, Solana clients &programs, pain points and anti-patterns
- Expertise in Rust programming language
- Strong understanding of Solana Account Model, Program Derived Addresses and Cross Program Invocation
- Experience with Anchor
- In-depth knowledge of Solana RPC clients
- Understanding of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and distributed systems
- Knowledge of cryptographic concepts (public/private keys, digital signatures, hashing)
- Experience in software engineering roles
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities
- Experience collaborating effectively in a cross-disciplinary team setup interacting directly with many parts of the organisation
- A positive, cheerful, can-do attitude where obstacles are just problems yet to be solved
Nice to Haves
- Experience with ZK Compression / Light Protocol / Photon Indexer
- Experience with Pinocchio and zero copy
- In-depth knowledge of Solana validators, consensus, confirmation and finality
- Interest in Alpenglow and the advances this will bring to latency and finality
- Solana program optimisation
- Experience working with Solana security audit review vendors
- Experience of Linux, shell scripting or other scripting languages, Linux command line tools, TCP/IP networking
- Corda knowledge / experience
- Another DLT or public blockchain besides Solana
- Familiarity and /or experience with Kotlin
- Any Java or JVM ecosystem experience
- Other high level programming languages such as C#, C++, Objective-C, Swift
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R3 is a leading provider of enterprise technology and services that enable direct, digital collaboration in regulated industries where trust is critical. Multi-party solutions developed on our platforms harness the "Power of 3"—R3's trust technology, connected networks and regulated markets expertise—to drive market innovation and improve processes in banking, capital markets, global trade and insurance.
As one of the first companies to deliver both a private, distributed ledger technology (DLT) application platform and confidential computing technology, R3 empowers institutions to realize the full potential of trusted direct collaboration. We maintain one of the largest DLT production ecosystems in the world connecting over 400 institutions, including global systems integrators, cloud providers, technology firms, software vendors, corporates, regulators, and financial institutions from the public and private sectors. For more information, visit www.r3.com or connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
