Job Description

Truffle Debugger exists as a Javascript library and as a Javascript CLI application. It relies on the Truffle Codec library, written in TypeScript, for decoding of values. Maintenance of Truffle Codec is included in the role.

You’ll share responsibilities with your team to:

Ship regular updates to stay up to date with the changing ecosystem
Fix bugs and otherwise improve the end-user experience
Expand the capabilities of Truffle Debugger and Truffle Decoder to handle new use cases
Invent novel ways to improve the developer experience across our suite of tools and the rest of the Ethereum ecosystem.
Implement CI/CD to fully automate our release process
Write and maintain our documentation

About You

You’re comfortable with:

Noticing, reasoning about, and experimenting on edge cases and corner cases

Truffle Debugger focuses on correctness, and Solidity and the EVM have a number of minutiae and dark corners, so you should be comfortable with looking for and thinking about such cases and with writing code to handle them. (You won’t be expected to know all these off the bat, of course!)

Keeping up to date with a changing ecosystem

The Ethereum ecosystem, and the Solidity language in particular, are under constant development; we need to be able to make sure our tools support the latest versions… and the oldest, too.

Making sense of undocumented data formats via experimentation

Truffle Debugger often needs to make use of undocumented or changing data formats. You’ll need to be able to make determinations about the workings of these formats, across their various versions, via experimentation.

Spoken and written communication

Due to the factors above, the code behind Truffle Debugger can in some places be a bit arcane, so it’s important to be able to explain your work on it to keep everyone in sync, whether via code comments, PR descriptions, or internal discussion.

Architecting solutions to open-ended problems

The Ethereum ecosystem is in many ways still developing, so sometimes, we have to invent the data formats we need and the tools to handle them!

Writing software and tests

This is, after all, the core of the role!

Skills you’ll learn, or improve upon if you’re already knowledgeable:

TypeScript and Node.js
Redux, Reselect, and Redux-Saga
Writing performant JavaScript
The Ethereum Virtual Machine and its bytecode
The Solidity smart contract language
Vyper and other smart contract languages
The Truffle suite of tools
Managing and interacting with a open source developer community

You’ll have these opportunities:

Ship software that reaches 100s of thousands of developers
Connect with ConsenSys engineers from MetaMask, Infura, Pegasys, Protocol Labs, etc to coordinate and build software to further foster the Ethereum ecosystem
Help build the future of economy by creating the tools used in its development
Attend and speak at conferences around the world (DevCon, TruffleCon, more!)
Be mentored by some of the best minds of Ethereum and Cryptocurrencies
Live anywhere with a quality Internet connection

Apply here: https://bit.ly/3McMqpk

Protocol & Debugging Engineer (Truffle)