About the company
The Nexus Project is a scientific and engineering effort bringing truth to the field of computation. We’re enabling a new form of compute: verifiable computation, powered by open science and open-source software so it can benefit everyone. Our work aims to bring to life decades of advancements in zero-knowledge cryptography, achieved by many scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, into a single software system. Nexus raised $25M in Series A funding, co-led by Lightspeed and Pantera, with participation from Dragonfly, SV Angel, and more. Our team consists of some of the world's top cryptographers, mathematicians, and engineers, all working together with one goal: to unite the world's computers and prove humanity's computations.
Job Summary
What You’ll Do
📍Architect and implement the distributed infrastructure powering Nexus’s L1 blockchain and high-performance DEX. 📍Optimize consensus and transaction pipelines for speed, determinism, fairness, and low latency. 📍Build secure, production-grade systems that meet the performance requirements of modern financial exchanges. 📍Develop and maintain high-availability, fault-tolerant infrastructure across cloud and distributed environments. 📍Offer best practices for reliability, observability, performance engineering, and secure operations.
What Success Looks Like
📍A stable, enterprise-grade mainnet with high availability and sub-second transaction finality. 📍A DEX achieving low-latency execution comparable to centralized trading systems while remaining decentralized. 📍Infrastructure, tooling, and developer workflows enabling less than 10 minutes from onboarding to first transaction. 📍High-frequency trading benchmarks met or exceeded. 📍engineering environment that scales effectively without compromising reliability or code quality.
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