The Team

We are a remote team, working with a coalition of independent engineers and businesses to bring new integrated products to Bitcoin, using the Lightning Network, Slashtags and Hypercore protocols.

The Job

This position requires an experienced JS/Node.js developer and is available to anyone self-driven, and with the experience, motivation and capacity to contribute to our vision.

We are looking for team members who can take the initiative, deliver, improve, and maintain novel web platforms. You will be part of a dynamic, multi-faceted team, and have the chance to help shape the direction of a suite of Bitcoin-integrated applications.

USA citizens and USA residents are not eligible for this position.

Requirements & Responsibilities

• Knowledge and experience with microservices architecture
• Comfortable with high-availability concepts
• Have actively participated in the development of a sophisticated platform as one of the leading developers
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Exceptional JavaScript skills, ability to performance optimize code, Ruby, Rust or C++ skills are a plus
• Other technologies of interest: Message queues (ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ), Job Queues
• Direct experience integrating and applying Bitcoin, Lightning Network, P2P network protocols, and other applied cryptography is ideal, but not wholly required, depending on experience.
• Rust language experience is a major plus
• Hypercore experience is a major plus

Full-Time, Part-Time, Remote

The Team

Synonym is a remote team of Bitcoiners, working with a coalition of independent engineers and businesses to bring new integrated products to Bitcoin, using the Lightning Network, Slashtags and Hypercore protocols. We use GitHub, Asana and Slack for project management.

The Job

We'd like to add an experienced Mobile App Developer (cross-platform Android/iOS) to our Bitkit mobile wallet team. Our wallet includes features for Bitcoin, Lightning Network, tokens, P2P networking, authentication and more. We may build additional mobile apps in the future.

UI - Build and render beautiful responsive applications with our design team.

New Features - Synonym continuously strives to create unique and innovative experiences around P2P technologies and concepts, with the goal of making P2P technologies mainstream.

Scalability - The mobile application must remain effortlessly smooth, responsive, and real-time for customers as the platform continues to scale to accommodate new user growth and feature growth.

USA citizens and USA residents are not eligible for this position.

Requirements & Responsibilities

• Passion for user experience, and for building pixel-perfect UI implementations
• Highly proficient in JavaScript and ES6+
• Familiar with modern front-end pipelines and tools
• Experienced with WebSockets, RESTful based APIs
• Comfortable working with and interested in P2P technologies
• Thoroughly experienced with React, React-Native, Redux and their core principles
• Self-managed & self-motivated, comfortable working independently
• Good communication and ability to report progress and blockers
• Interested in bringing diverse, novel, and innovative applications to life
• Native iOS (Swift/ObjC) / Android (Java /Kotlin) development experience is not required but plus
• Node.js experience is not required but a plus
• Bitcoin & Lightning network experience is a plus

Full-Time, Part-Time, Remote

The Team

Synonym is a remote team of Bitcoiners, working with a coalition of independent engineers and businesses to bring new integrated products to Bitcoin, using the Lightning Network, Slashtags and Holepunch.

The Job

We are looking for someone to specialize in research & development of our web-of-trust rating, weighting, and filtering aspects by utilizing cryptographic keypairs combined with a DHT (Kademlia) for routing and key-locked databases. This includes our Slashtags protocol, Holepunch protocol, and abstracted methods for establishing subjective, semantic, sortable networks and data.

The successful candidate will need to consider sybil attacks, scaling issues, privacy, to design and deliver a system that establishes relative reputation networks with data that is filtered & weighted using semantic attributes.

While this role is partially research-oriented and may require someone with appropriate academic experience, it is important to note that this individual will be expected to contribute meaningfully to both the design and implementation of schemata and open-source code to be used within servers and client software products.

USA citizens and USA residents are not eligible for this position.

Requirements & Responsibilities

• Data Science
• Distributed Systems
• Cryptography
• Graph Theory
• Machine Learning / AI
• Network Science
• Schema Design
• Signal Theory
• Social Networks
• Software Engineering
• Anthropology, Game Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, Ontology, Sociology, etc.
• Node.js experience is not required but a plus
• Bitcoin & Lightning network experience is a plus

Full-Time, Part-Time, Remote