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Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Lightning Protocol Engineer, Lightning Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time https://angel.co/lightning/ https://lightning.engineering/ Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge of innovation with regard to blockchain scalability, privacy-preserving smart contracts, and cryptocurrency UX. If you’re interested in one of the positions below, please send a brief description of your relevant experience and resume/github to jobs@lightning.engineering. And if you know someone who might be a good fit, we'd very much appreciate any referrals. {Lightning Protocol Engineer}: Experienced systems software engineer versed in applied cryptography, peer-to-peer networks, distributed systems, open source software, and cryptocurrency protocols to design and implement core protocol and algorithmic components of the Lightning Network. Solid programming skills, experience with Go, C, or C++. Prior contributions to crypto protocols and open source software collaboration preferred. {Lightning Infrastructure Engineer}: Systems-oriented engineer to design and build out key routing infrastructure components of the Lightning Network. Projects include writing tooling for automated channel management, initial client channel selection (autopilot), ongoing capital management and optimization, monitoring infrastructure for routing nodes, and passive analysis of the health of the network from graph theoretic metrics. Ideal candidates have experience building and operating secure, scalable, highly-available systems. {Frontend Application Developer}: Frontend developer to build secure cross-platform second-layer blockchain applications. Our applications are built on React, React Native, MobX, and Electron, communicating with a Lightning daemon over a binary RPC protocol. Ideal applicants will have experience building and shipping React Native applications and maintaining open source projects.