We’re hiring full-time researchers who are interested in the blockchain / distributed computing space to make improvements to Fantom’s Lachesis consensus engine. Working with our core consensus team, you will develop a deep understanding of consensus, asynchronous distributed ledger technology, and communication between nodes.

This is a remote job, where working hours and vacation time are flexible.

This is a full-time role.

You will:

• Design algorithms to improve the security and performance of go-opera.
• Implement improvements in Golang
• Work with the core consensus team for research, feedback, implementation, and testing
• Write test cases
• Perform testing on validator and read-only nodes on both testnet and the mainnet

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Good knowledge of Golang
• Familiarity with aBFT, BFT, and PoS
• Prior work experience in Geth and EVM
• Other relevant experience (networking, distributed systems, graph theory etc)