Principal Engineer

About Hylé

Hylé is pioneering the future of blockchain infrastructure with ZK technology. Our approach promises a streamlined, efficient blockchain, maintaining its key features: censorship resistance, permissionless value, and reliable decentralization.

Backed with $5M from leading VCs, we're building our team, currently led by founders Sylve (CEO) and Lancelot (CTO). Our goals are ambitious - B2B use cases within 4 months, series A within the year, and going live on mainnet within 24 months.

Programming Skills

The initial team will be 3-4 devs and the CTO, so product ownership will be essential.

For the role of principal engineer, we are looking for someone with extensive programming experience, though specific blockchain/web3 experience is un-necessary.

• Systems programming: Rust / C++ / C

The ideal candidate has more than 10 years of programming experience, combining:

• Backend programming: Go / Java / C# / Typescript

• DevOps / Infra (either on bare metal or containerised)

• Experience in web3 and frontend are a plus

Other skills

• Willing to work in a venture start-up with high risk - this is a go big or go home project

• Highly adaptable - we will try to remain rather nimble, and while the overall goal is well specified the path to get there is subject to change

• Good with feedback, communication, transparency

• Business & delivery oriented

• English mandatory, French appreciated

Key responsibilities

The core technical objective is twofold: shipping B2B use-cases in the coming months, then expanding that a permissionless mainnet blockchain with 24 months. You can expect:

• At first working on a Cosmos SDK app written in Go, augmenting it with verifiers for various ZK proving schemes (those mostly written in rust).

• Exporting the implications of our new architecture by writing our own apps

• Bridging the state of the chain to/from other networks such as Ethereum

• Working on support for various wallets

• Investigate the need to switch away from the Cosmos SDK, and if this path is taken, participate in writing a new blockchain stack. If not, modify the cosmos SDK accordingly.

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