Full Time

Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, UK, USA, Remote

About Informal

Informal Systems is a remote-first company with offices in Toronto, Lausanne, Vienna and Berlin. We are structured like a worker's cooperative, where important corporate actions are subject to one-person-one-vote democratic control by the member-employees.

We envision a sustainable future of cooperatively owned and governed, open-source, distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems and are excited to grow the team with amazing individuals who believe in making this future a reality.

Informal is a core contributor to Cosmos, where we develop interoperable blockchain systems by heavily relying on formal verification tools and techniques (formal specification in TLA+, symbolic model checker Apalache, Model-Based Testing Framework, etc.).

The Cosmos technology stack, including CometBFT, the Cosmos-SDK, IBC, and the Cosmos Proof of Stake modules, is an industry-leading toolkit for building, deploying, and running community-owned decentralized networks.

What your primary responsibilities will be:

• Design and develop our products and software.
• Improve the user experience, correctness, code quality, and performance of the software.
• Contribute clean, well-tested, and well-documented code.
• Drive the expansion of the IBC standards, integration with various ecosystems
• Review issues and pull requests and provide valuable feedback to contributors.
• Guard the quality of the software from technical debt, missing tests or documentation, and feature creep.
• Nurture a safe and enjoyable open-source experience for contributors.

What we look for in a successful Rust Engineer:

• At least 3 years of developing, releasing, and maintaining production software.
• Significant experience writing Rust or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages.
• Commitment to product quality, user experience, and well-structured code.
• A track record of designing maintainable APIs that are a delight to use.
• Experience with p2p networking, fault-tolerant consensus protocols, blockchain application development, or other related technologies.
• A deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, experience working with distributed teams, and enjoys working with and mentoring others.

Some of our benefits include:

• A unique, caring and friendly culture (learn more about how we work here)
• 25 days (5 weeks) of paid vacation annually, plus 3 Spiritual Days
• Company closure from December 25th to January 1
• Annual Lifestyle benefits (reimbursements for gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc)
• A remote-first, flexible work environment
• A home-office stipend to set you up for success
• Annual company retreats
• Paid parental leave
• ….. and many more!

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in our organization. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and encourage applications from people of all race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.