About the company
At Azuki, you will have an opportunity to develop decentralized IPs and build innovative products that change how fans engage and experience anime. We’re building the right team to navigate and pioneer a multimedia brand for the future. Our mission is to build the future of anime by harnessing the power of community and blockchain technology. You will also have end to end ownership over your work ranging from storyboarding all the way to the final composition. Chiru Labs (Azuki) is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.
Job Summary
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
📍Comfortable designing and implementing robust, secure, and scalable blockchain protocols, with a focus on enabling new ways for fans to express their fandom on-chain. 📍Strong logical reasoning and first principles thinking, prioritizing innovative and effective solutions over hype. Strives for clean, modular, maintainable, and secure code. 📍Strong communication skills, able to distill complex blockchain concepts into simple terms for various stakeholders. Will collaborate closely with design, product, and business teams to translate product goals into reliable and maintainable protocols. 📍Eager, proactive, detail-oriented, and resourceful with a strong work ethic. Thrives in a fast-paced, unique startup environment experimenting at the intersection of web3 and traditional tech.
TECHNICAL EXPECTATIONS
📍Expertise in building and maintaining blockchain protocols, especially in the context of user identity, on-chain interactions, and social graphs. 📍Proficient in writing smart contracts and handling edge cases to ensure the protocol is secure, scalable, and accessible. 📍Experience in creating SDKs/APIs that facilitate consumer adoption and use cases for blockchain protocols. 📍Deep understanding of common blockchain challenges (state management, off-chain interactions, transaction processing, etc.). 📍Security-focused: prioritizes exploit resistance best practices (encryption, access control, secure key management, etc.). 📍Experience contributing to the devops side of blockchain infrastructure (node monitoring, performance tuning, system alerts, etc.).
