About Alice

Alice is a blockchain-based impact network that helps identify and scale truly effective social and environmental projects. We’re hiring a smart, diverse and dynamic team of people that are inspired by the potential of technology to tackle the world’s most intractable problems.

If you have a tech, nonprofit, impact investment or cryptoeconomics background, and want to work with a passionate team of research and data-driven social innovators, please get in touch.


About the role

‍We’re looking for someone who wants to apply their technical skills to tackling complex social and environmental issues, and has a strong interest in the blockchain and building decentralised applications.


Responsibilities:
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- Lead the development of Alice’s smart contract infrastructure, including protocols for conditional donations, tradable impact investments, governance and data curation
- Produce high quality code that is readable, documented and tested
- Research and implement improvements in the scalability, performance and cost efficiency of chain interactions


Who we’re looking for:
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- You have implemented advanced blockchain protocols consisting of multiple, interoperating smart contracts, and can use development frameworks such as Truffle
- You have a good understanding of how the EVM works and how to optimise the size of smart contracts and gas usage
- You understand the lifecycle of smart contract development (prototyping, implementation, testing and deployment)
- You pay attention to blockchain security, and have knowledge of popular attack vectors
- You have good knowledge of at least one scripting language, particularly Javascript/Node.js or Python
- You have experience with developing a micro-services architecture by implementing small, modularised, interoperating components
- You’re used to working autonomously in a distributed and agile development team
- You aren’t phased by either deep technical challenges, or carrying out mundane tasks
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Bonus points:

- You frequent meet ups and are comfortable speaking to a community of developers
- You have experience contributing actively to open-source projects
- You have a strong interest in cryptoeconomics

For more information on Alice, please visit our website, read our whitepaper and our blog, watch our presentations at Devcon3 and EthCC, or read the coverage about the launch of our first pilot.