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We value an open exchange of ideas in a supportive environment that provides space for discussion, debate, and opportunities for all perspectives to be considered.
We value supporting each team member so they can contribute to the Foundation’s success in their own unique and impactful ways.
We value providing opportunities for growth and personal progression through hands-on learning, challenging assignments, and exposure to innovative and unique tools and approaches.
We value transparency, inclusivity, and humility and create policies and programs to reflect this.
Apply here for the Core Engineer Role! We look forward to your application.
When evaluating candidates, the Foundation will primarily evaluate candidates on the results of their take home project and interviews. More details about the hiring process can be found below. This position is open until filled.
The role as a Core Engineer within the Zcash Foundation team will be responsible for working with the engineering team to build Zebra and its associated projects. The ideal candidate will embody the Foundation’s values while fully aligning with its mission and goals. Currently the engineering team is working on Zebra, an independent implementation of the Zcash protocol written in Rust, and over the coming year, the team will expand its scope to include user-facing functionality, as well as new functionality, such as support for FROST. The position reports to the Zcash Foundation’s engineering manager.
Responsibilities will include:
The ideal candidate will likely possess many (but not necessarily all) of the following personal attributes, skills, and experience:
The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit, public charity that builds and supports privacy infrastructure for the public good. We work on strengthening financial privacy with technology, focusing primarily on the Zcash protocol and blockchain.
We are looking for someone who is as excited as we are about building private financial infrastructure for the public good.
Why work for the Zcash Foundation?
We offer:
It is the Zcash Foundation’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital or domestic partner status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, physical characteristics, family care, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Zcash Foundation will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
When evaluating candidates, the Foundation will primarily evaluate candidates on the results of their take home project and interviews. Additionally, we look at work samples and collaborative interviews for further evaluation.
To apply, please submit the following to this form:
We will follow up within a week of your submission.
Software Sample
We expect this position to contribute to producing engineering artifacts that meet the needs of our projects. We use past work to evaluate how you will likely perform in future work for the foundation. If you don’t have existing public work, that’s OK — just pick something you’ve done and describe it for us in as much detail as necessary to understand it.
Writing Sample
We work remotely on an open source project, so most of our communication with each other, our users, and external contributors happens through text. Send us some writing that you’re proud of. This could be something like:
Presentation Sample
It’s important to be able to make our work legible both to our collaborators and to the public we serve. Along with writing well, oral presentation skills are an important vehicle for this kind of communication. If you’ve given a technical presentation that is publicly available, please provide a link to the slides and video (if available).
If you don’t have a publicly available presentation, please describe a topic you’ve presented in the past.
There will be two technical interviews and at least one non-technical interview, all conducted over video chat.
All interviews will be conducted over Google Meet.
Need to reach us? Send us an enquiry and a member of our team will get back to you shortly.
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