Solidity Developer at Energy Web

Reporting: This position will work across multiple EW development teams and report to the Utility Layer Solution Architect

Job Description

• We are seeking a Solidity Developer to join our team and help build and scale the Utility Layer of the Energy Web Decentralized Operating System (EW-DOS), an open-source software stack to create the digital infrastructure to decarbonize the grid.
• On any given day you might find yourself developing smart contracts to enable Service Provider and Patron staking in Switchboard, working with internal DevOps team to scale Utility Layer services across multiple geographies and cloud environments, or making strategic decisions about the broader EW-DOS technical roadmap.

What Will You Do? 

• You’ll develop the foundational components that support enrolment, subscription, and enforcement of decentralized service level agreements in the Utility Layer. 

What Are Your Responsibilities? 

• Working with Product Owner and Solution Architect rest of the core team to deliver the EWT staking implementation in support of decentralized service level agreements.
• Maintaining technical documentation in GitHub and Confluence.
• Working with the Technical Community Manager to create tutorials and demonstrations that allow other developers to easily use / interact with the components you develop.
• Proposing and implementing improvements to existing EW-DOS technology stack.

Requirements
You are a strong candidate if:

• You have 3+ years of experience in commercial backend engineering (Javascript, Node.JS, Typescript, SQL, No-SQL).
• You have experience writing smart contracts in Solidity in EVM blockchain environments.
• You are comfortable working in an agile setting like SCRUM, Kanban, XP.
• You are proficient in writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code.
• You are excited about open-source software projects and participate in their communities. Extra points if you have experience developing SDK libraries. 
• You have a keen interest and/or direct experience with blockchain and other Web3.0 technologies, especially Ethereum, Solidity, smart contracts and/or Polkadot/Substrate.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to clearly and concisely communicate complicated technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit! We need people who are curious, creative, collaborative, and who enjoy building things from the ground up
• English skills are required, but additional language skills are a bonus.

Why you’ll love working at Energy Web:

• An opportunity to transform the global energy sector: We’re working with our members to build the world’s first public, open-source digital infrastructure for the energy industry. If we’re successful, EW-DOS will fundamentally change the way the grid operates, replacing a legacy system based on top-down management of fossil fuel assets with a distributed system based on renewables and customer-owned assets. 
• Every day is an adventure: What we’re doing has never been done before; instead of following a playbook, we’re writing it. We operate like a startup and you’ll collaborate with multiple internal teams and external partners ranging from innovative startups to some of the world’s largest companies.
• Development opportunities: As a member of the Energy Web team, you’ll work alongside a team of energy sector and technology experts and gain firsthand experience working with partners from around the world to deploy an enterprise-grade, decentralized digital infrastructure.