At Hiro, we build developer tools that bring Web3 to Bitcoin. Our suite of tools unlocks the full potential of Bitcoin through smart contracts, digital assets, and decentralized applications. With Hiro tools, developers can test and deploy smart contracts, spin up nodes and other server-side resources for scaling, and more. Building on Bitcoin is hard. Hiro's developer tools make it easier. We’re very proud to say that Hiro won 4 Built In’s Best Places to Work awards, including U.S. Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Places to Work, and New York Best Startups to Work For!
Hiro is funded and backed by more than $75 million from Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Naval Ravikant, and others.
Hiro seeks a seasoned engineer to contribute to the development of our core products, including developer tools, libraries, and SDKs. In this fully remote role, you will collaborate with a talented team and operate autonomously to design and implement essential features that serve our community. Join us at a rapidly growing startup, where you'll engage with a diverse and open-source technology stack alongside a globally distributed team.
What You’ll Do:
- Contribute to the development, maintenance, and testing of our developer tools.
- Develop and maintain Clarinet and Chainhook.
- Implement rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing to meet security and performance requirements
- Design and implement blockchain-supporting tools and utilities (e.g., CLI client; tools for exploring the blockchain, monitoring, benchmarking or debugging)
- Collaborate with other teams on new product features for the Stacks blockchain (e.g. developer tooling, UX tooling, 3rd party integrations etc)
- Support developers on Discord, communicate about product releases
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience of building and shipping products
- Strong, demonstrated experience in engineering fundamentals: scalability, architecture, refactoring, algorithms, testing, and code versioning.
- Expertise in at least one of: Typescript, C/C++, or Rust
- Experience building out SDKs and libraries
We’d Also Like to See:
- Working knowledge of blockchain (e.g. Clarity or Solidity), distributed systems, peer-to-peer systems, decentralization
- Experience testing distributed systems for behaviors in the presence of faults, network partitions, and network delays
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana
- Experience working on open source software
What we’ll offer:
- Salary Range (regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $160,000 - $200,000.
- Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens--STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network
- $500/mo co-working space reimbursement
- $1,200/yr stipend for learning and development
- $1,000/yr of charity donation matching to an organization of your choosing
- Daily Lunch Reimbursement (even if you’re remote!)
- Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need
- Family-Friendly Health Benefits
- Free Life and Disability Insurance
- Health and dependent care (FSA)
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- 401k with 3% match
Top Skills
What We Do
Hiro is a company that creates developer tools for Stacks, a network that enables apps and smart contracts for Bitcoin. As a core entity within the Stacks Ecosystem, Hiro works alongside various independent entities, developers, and community members to establish a user-owned internet on Bitcoin. Hiro provides developers with the tools to innovate and build on Bitcoin in ways previously not possible.
Why Work With Us
Our globally distributed team comprises ex-founders, computer scientists, self-taught engineers, parents, bakers, musicians, and chess players. We are a small but passionate team of diverse individuals.
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Employees work remotely.
At Hiro, we embrace a 100% distributed working model. We prioritize flexibility and productivity while ensuring employees communicate consistently and are accountable for set goals.