📝 DRAFT — Protocol Engineer, Zurich or Remote at HOPR

Protocol Engineer, Zurich or Remote HOPR 💼 Tech ⏰ Full Time 🌍 Zurich or remote

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About the Job

Everybody should have the right to decide about their data privacy - We enable it

HOPR is an association, based in Zurich, working on the forefront of privacy. Our product, the HOPR net, lets consumers & companies around the world choose, for the very first time, to hide or disclose relevant metadata about themselves. We are building a decentralized network, which will incentivize private users to relay data and grow both the HOPR network and the broader privacy ecosystem.

We are driven by great enthusiasm, to build public infrastructure in a free and open source environment. We believe this world can become a better place, if we work and grow together.

HOPR was founded and seed funded in Spring 2020. We now have close to a dozen team members, most of them in Zurich, Switzerland and are continuing to grow. These first employees are a vital extension to our founding team, to bring our ambitious project to fruition. We are looking for the very finest, to become a part of our HOPR family.

What you’ll be creating + working on:

- Lead research and development efforts on the intersection between decentralized networks and privacy infrastructure
- Design, implement and refine the HOPR protocol. You can see the HOPR protocol at https://github.com/hoprnet
- The current version of the HOPR protocol is the bare minimal core that needs a wealth of interconnected components to make a privacy-respecting web3 stack a reality. You are expected to design and implement these layers with a growing team. Examples are overlay networks, packet retransmission, routing in a decentralized setting and dynamic resource allocation
- Support and work with the community of developers, users, investors, enthusiasts who want to use HOPR

What you bring to the team:
- Communicative team player who can work with and lead a development team in a fast-paced environment
- Desire to work on the future of privacy and trail-blaze the future of non-corporate work
- An affinity to free and open source software and community-focussed development
- Theoretical knowledge and practical experience with the internet protocol stack and protocols, minimally: IP, TCP, UDP, (QUIC,) DNS, WebRTC
- Familiarity with mixnet infrastructure and Tor along with existing limitations and issues
- Familiarity with mechanisms and common issues, minimally: proxies, NAT, firewalls, packet loss & retransmission
- Minimally 5 years hands-on development experience delivering Javascript applications in production settings

We’d be even more amazed by:
Ideally, a suitable candidate fulfils as much as possible from the following list (in order of relevance):
- Experience with libp2p
- Familiarity with elliptic curve cryptographic in theory and practice in general and pairing-based cryptography specifically
- Experience with collaborative research projects and scholarly communication
- Zero knowledge protocols such as zk-SNARKs, Bulletproofs, zk-STARKs, zk-Rollups, Optimistic Rollups
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of blockchain and crypto assets in general
- Familiarity with Ethereum and the EVM
- Motivation to communicate about your work: blogs, conferences, social media
- Experience and curiosity to work for and on a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) and decentralised governance

This is what we offer you:
- A young, dynamic + international team to work with
- Flat hierarchies with space for you + your ideas
- An encouraging atmosphere for clever minds
- A fast-paced working environment in a Swiss association
- A competitive salary + benefits like token allocation
- Office in Zurich Seefeld

Apply now + become a part of an ambitious team!