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Description

• Lead and mentor a small team of P2P engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. • Facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development among team members • Oversee the nim-libp2p project lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones. • Actively participate in the libp2p community, contributing to discussions, and events. • Conduct research to explore advancements in libp2p • Create practical implementations of research outputs and contribute to libp2p specifications, ensuring they are accessible and usable. • Engage with IFT project teams to gather requirements and ensure alignment on project goals. • Develop a thorough understanding of the full codebase to effectively address and resolve ad-hoc tasks and issues. • Act as a resource for the team, enabling them to focus on their primary responsibilities by handling urgent or unforeseen technical challenges • Implement libp2p protocols according to existing specifications • Further architecture and development of the nim-libp2p implementation

Requirements

• A passion for decentralization, P2P and privacy-preserving technology • Strong leadership skills to mentor and guide a team, fostering collaboration and productivity • Experience in managing projects, including planning, execution, and stakeholder communication • Ability to handle team dynamics and resolve conflicts effectively • Excellent communication skills to interact with team members, stakeholders, and the broader community • Willingness to adapt to changing project requirements and priorities • Strong engineering background • In-depth knowledge of peer-to-peer networking protocols • Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#) • Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically • Experience implementing core networking protocols such as Websockets and/or Quic • Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal • Knowledge of security protocols and practices for securing P2P networks and protecting data • A strong alignment to our mission: https://free.technology/