Full Stack Engineer (P2P Network)

About Aztec

At Aztec, our goal is to take the original promise of Ethereum–a decentralized and verifiable world computer–and expand its capability immensely by making it fully encrypted. In the current public blockchain paradigm, users and entities unknowingly broadcast data in the public, compromising privacy and security to get trustlessness. Not only are unencrypted blockchains inherently privacy-exposing, they require significant redundancy to compute and verify the legitimacy of transactions. Implementing scalable encryption in a public blockchain paradigm requires cutting-edge math and engineering. Thankfully, our team of scientists and engineers invented Plonk, the industry-standard zkSNARK, and Noir, the universal language of zero knowledge. Now, we’re building a first of its kind public-private encrypted blockchain: Ethereum, encrypted. And it’s now time to bring it to market. We’ve raised $125 million from industry-leading investors including a16z crypto, Paradigm, Variant, Consensys, and a_capital, and we’re growing quickly.

Role focus:

A key goal of Aztec over the coming year is to meaningfully decentralize the network. Achieving this will require a multi-disciplinary approach that will cover our entire tech stack. One area of particular attention is the networking layer. We’re looking for engineers with specific network protocol experience to:

• Focus on development of Aztec’s networking layer.
• Decentralise the transaction pool, by implementing a p2p network protocol.
• Ensure rapid propagation of transactions through the network.
• Play a critical role in designing and building a scalable and resilient p2p network cable of processing a large proportion of the worlds financial transactions (Rival visa / mastercard but p2p)
• Contribute back to a thriving open source eco-system
• Hook directly into L1 devp2p protocol for advanced L2 synching.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related technical field 
• 6+ years industry engineering experience
• Fluent in Typescript (3+ years experience)
• Solid understanding of internet networking protocols.
• Basic understanding of at least one p2p protocol.
• Experience writing networking code in a production environment.
• Development experience with Ethereum.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice-to-have experience:

• Located in the UK or can operate in Greenwich Mean Time Zone
• Familiarity with current Ethereum tooling (for inspiration)
• Passion for the web3 space
• Familiarity with other private blockchain technologies like ZCash
• Knowledge of peer-to-peer decentralized networking tools
• A love for Merkle Trees

What we offer:

• A highly competitive compensation package (including equity)
• Flexible and remote work environment
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays annually
• An opportunity to work at the cutting edge of blockchain and FinTech with a world class cryptography and engineering team