Blockchain Engineer
Hybrid (Remote (US; CA; ES; PT; NL; RO))$160k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Blockchain Engineer at Hiro Systems to build and maintain developer tools integrated with the Stacks Blockchain, collaborating with a team to architect and deliver feature upgrades and improvements for Subnets and related tooling.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development, maintenance, and testing of developer tools. Subnets is under active development and initial version is on Testnet. Design new features, improve performance and reliability, and ensure Subnets are secure, reliable, and performant.
- Utilize advanced cryptographic algorithms and concepts to evolve the next iteration of Subnets
- Implement rigorous monitoring and testing practices 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 tools)
- Collaborate with other teams on new product features that depend on the Stacks blockchain (e.g., developer tooling, UX tooling, 3rd party integrations)
Qualifications
- 5-10 years of experience in software engineering with experience in building and shipping products.
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in a production environment with one or more of: public blockchains; consensus protocols; large-scale distributed systems; high availability, and real-time systems; applied cryptography; compilers; any other equivalent/adjacent technology
- Experience in research
- Expertise in Rust
- Experience with Cryptography
- Prior experience with Blockchain is necessary
Skills
Required:Rust
Benefits
- $160,000 - $200,000 salary range
- Company equity
- Stacks (STX) tokens
- $500/mo co-working space reimbursement
- $1,200/yr learning and development stipend
- $1000/yr charity donation matching
- Daily Lunch Reimbursement
- Open Vacation Policy
- Family-Friendly Health Benefits
- Free Life and Disability Insurance
- Health and dependent care (FSA)
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- 401k with 3% match
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Hiro Systems
Hiro Systems build developer tools for Bitcoin L1 and the Stacks L2
Hiro System builds developer tools for Bitcoin L1 and the Stacks L2 (layer-2). Stacks is a Bitcoin layer for smart contracts; it's an open-source project with an ecosystem of independent entities. Hiro serves 350M+ monthly API requests and thousands of crypto users on dev products.
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