\nAbout Status\nStatus is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. \nWith the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.\nAs an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. \nAs a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol; the p2p communication layer for Web3.\nAs a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. \nWe care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.\n\nAbout Status Network\n\nStatus Network is a forward-looking zkEVM L2 rollup on Ethereum tailored for social applications and seamless access to DeFi yield opportunities for everyone. Status Network is dedicated to providing an open playground for communities to build on and thrive, while also incentivising liquidity thanks to a native yield market. We are deeply committed to decentralisation, with a focus on minimising censorship risks and preserving the right to privacy.\n\nStatus Network is tightly integrated within the broader IFT ecosystem. The IFT is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, collaborative and open internet, which includes the Status app. \n\nStatus Network is set to become a settlement layer for these different protocols and social applications, offering the most seamless and open social infrastructure to build truly onchain organisations. Status Network will bring direct utility to the SNT token with upgraded tokenomics taking into account sequencer revenues.\n\nThe role\n\nThe L2 Lead Developer at Status Network will be responsible for the comprehensive deployment and ongoing operation of this new zkEVM L2 rollup. This role includes full oversight of the infrastructure setup in collaboration with a RaaS (Rollup as a Service) provider and other infrastructure partners. The Lead Developer will manage the integration of essential third-party partners required for the blockchain's operation, including but not limited to bridges, RPC endpoint providers, developers tooling, blockchain indexers and explorers, and fiat-to-crypto gateways, with a focus on delivering the smoothest developer experience.\n\nThis position offers a unique opportunity to lead the engineering efforts for the launch and subsequent growth of a groundbreaking zk L2 rollup. You will be at the forefront of developing a platform that not only supports decentralised applications but also integrates social and financial functionalities deeply within its architecture, paving the way for a new era of onchain social interaction and economic exchange.\n\nIf you are driven by innovation in blockchain technology, eager to lead a cutting-edge project, and passionate about decentralisation and privacy, this role will provide you with the perfect platform to make a significant impact.\n\nKey responsibilities:\n\n\n* Spearhead the implementation, launch, and ongoing development of a new zkEVM L2 rollup on Ethereum.\n\n* Oversee the entire infrastructure for the L2 rollup, collaborating with our RaaS and infra providers to ensure high reliability and performance.\n\n* Manage technical integrations with external third-party providers as well as internal teams, including adapting Nimbus client software for the rollup and working with the Status App client teams for application integration.\n\n* Collaborate on the codebase of our L2 stack partner to innovate and enhance the security and performance of our zkEVM rollup stack.\n\n* Drive the development process of Status Network by establishing rigorous testing protocols on testnets and mainnet, implementing best practices in coding, security, and system design, and coordinating deployment processes to ensure the rollup's integrity and availability at launch.\n\n* Engage with the community and developers through outreach, documentation, and support to encourage adoption and feedback for continuous improvement.\n\n* Lead, mentor, and expand our team of developers and engineers, promoting a culture of innovation and collaboration.\n\n\n\n\nYou will ideally have:\n\n\n* Strong experience in the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly with L2 solutions like zkEVM rollups.\n\n* Advanced knowledge of Solidity programming and a deep understanding of blockchain mechanics.\n\n* Proven track record of leading software development teams, with experience successfully managing cross-functional teams.\n\n* History of contributing to or leading open-source projects.\n\n* Expertise in cloud infrastructure management, especially with AWS, including configuring and managing scalable and secure environments suitable for blockchain applications\n\n* Proficient in setting up and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes, especially in the context of open-source software.\n\n* Experience with implementing and managing decentralised and distributed systems, demonstrating a robust understanding of the challenges and solutions specific to these environments.\nA hands-on approach and technical proficiency in troubleshooting, optimising, and innovating blockchain solutions under various constraint\nExperience with various blockchain infrastructures and applications, including node operation, blockchain explorer integration, DeFi and NFT lending protocols, and cross-chain bridge mechanisms.\n\n* Understanding of other blockchain and cryptographic technologies, including consensus algorithms, DeFi smart contract security, and network protocols.\n\n* A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.app/manifesto\n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points:\n\n\n* Degen\n\n* Comfort with remote and asynchronous work environments\n\n* A passionate advocate for the Ethereum community and the broader ethos of open-source contribution\n\n* Enthusiasm for decentralisation and a personal drive to promote censorship resistance within the crypto space\n\n\n\n\n[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].\n\nHiring process:\n\n\n* Interview with our People Ops team\n\n* Interview with IFT Team Member\n\n* Interview with IFT Team Member\n\n* Interview with Program Lead\n\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\nThe expected compensation range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process). We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Defi, Crypto, Testing, Cloud and Node jobs that are similar:\n\n $87,500 — $167,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote (Worldwide)

\nAbout Status\nStatus is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. \nWith the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.\nAs an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. \nAs a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol; the p2p communication layer for Web3.\nAs a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. \nWe care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.\nThe role:\n\nStatus Desktop is currently in beta for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. Current product focus is on the privacy-centric messenger and group chat functionality, and we’ve just kicked off development of our new ‘multi-chain from the ground up’ crypto Wallet. ÐApp browser and blockchain node functionality will follow next. Status desktop is currently built using Nim & QT for the frontend, and it shares a common backend with Status mobile that is written in Go. We are currently in the middle of a large refactor of our architecture. This refactor includes transitioning the QT front end from Nim to C++, moving all business logic to our status-go backend, and upgrading from QT5.14.2 to QT6.2. As we work in the open and are fully open source you can get a better idea of who we are and the work we are doing by browsing our team wiki here and taking a look at our Status Desktop, Status Desktop QML component library and Status Desktop and Mobile Go backend GitHub repos. You can find more information about our desktop effort in this blog post. \nStatus is looking for multiple senior experienced C++/QML UI devs to join our growing desktop dev team and to work with us to create a permissionless, decentralized, censorship proof group chat platform. Role responsibilities include developing new features, creating and enhancing components in our QML UI toolkit component library, advising and assisting other members of the desktop dev team with solving challenging QML UI development problems, and perhaps working on the Go backend if this is something you would enjoy. As a team we try to match task assignment with the individual interests and passions of our team members, so there is a high degree of flexibility with regards to what you would be working on. If you are a passionate C++/QML expert who knows all the ins and outs of C++ and QT/QML UI development this could be an ideal role for you.\nThe desktop team is spread between Europe and North America with crossover work hours being the European timezone afternoon on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Ideally you will be located in a timezone between UTC -8 and UTC +3 e.g. anywhere in-between Panama and Moscow. Work is async using Status, Google Meet and Github, typically in Scrum Sprints.\nKey Responsibilities:\n\nBuild new features, enhance existing functionality and fix issues in the Status Desktop application.\n\nHelp develop and maintain Status’s QML UI component library (primarily used by the Status Desktop product)\n\nAdvise and assist the other developers in the Desktop team as needed to help solve the hardest QML UI development challenges\n\nContribute to C++ and Go codebases (and help with transitioning the codebase from Nim to C++ if you join us prior to this transition being completed), but don’t worry if you don’t have any prior Go or Nim experience.\n\nBe one of our resident experts for everything related to C++ and Qt/QML UI development.\n\n\n\nYou ideally will have:\n\nDon’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role!\n\nExpert level experience implementing UIs using Qt/QML/C++\n\nA strong ability to think about components and modules as they relate to other components as part of a larger system\n\nA very strong attention to detail and the willingness to deliver pixel perfect UI according to the designs.\n\nProvide feedback and product ideas to the designers as needed\n\nExperience with multithreading / concurrency\n\nGood communication skills in English\n\nA strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles We are a passion driven project on a mission to build tools that protect and enable free speech.\n\n\n\nBonus points if you have:\n\nExperience working in an open source organization\n\nA strong interest in blockchain technology and have a good understanding of Ethereum.\n\nWorked in a remote distributed environment that values asynchronous communication\n\nKnowledge of Go and/or Nim and/or Solidity is a plus\n\nExperience with using QT/QML to develop cross platform (Windows, OSX, Linux) desktop applications and mobile applications (iOS, Android) is a plus\n\nPrior experience with using Squish for functional testing QT apps\n\nExperience implementing openGL rendering in a QML context\n\nAny background or experience with cryptography and/or security\n\n\n\nCompensation:\n\nWe are happy to pay in either 100% fiat or any mix of fiat and/or crypto. \n\n\n\nHiring process:\n\nThe hiring process for this role is usually as follows (sometimes adapted):\n\nIntroductory conversation - Talent team\n\n3 Technical Interviews with Desktop Qt/QML Developers\n\nTeam lead interview - Iuri, Desktop Team Lead\n\n'Meet the Desktop team' interviews with 3-4 Desktop Contributors (30-40m each)\n\n\n\nQuestions about this role?\nFeel free to get in touch, we are more than happy to discuss the role in more detail.\n \n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Solidity, Crypto, Ethereum, Testing, Node, Mobile, Senior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $112,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote (Worldwide)

\nAbout Status\nStatus is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. \nWith the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.\nAs an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. \nAs a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol; the p2p communication layer for Web3.\nAs a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception.  Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. \nWe care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe role\n\n\n\n\nStatus Desktop is currently in beta for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms.  Current product focus is on the privacy-centric messenger and group chat functionality, and we’ve just kicked off development of our new ‘multi-chain from the ground up’ crypto Wallet.  ÐApp browser and blockchain node functionality will follow next. Status desktop is currently built using Nim & QT for the frontend, and it shares a common backend with Status mobile that is written in Go.  We are currently in the middle of a large refactor of our architecture.  This refactor includes transitioning the QT front end from Nim to C++, moving all business logic to our status-go backend, and upgrading from QT5.14.2 to QT6.2.  As we work in the open and are fully open source you can get a better idea of who we are and the work we are doing by browsing our team wiki here and taking a look at our Status Desktop, Status Desktop QML component library and Status Desktop and Mobile Go backend GitHub repos.  You can find more information about our desktop effort in this blog post. \n\nStatus is looking for multiple senior experienced C++/QML UI devs to join our growing desktop dev team and to work with us to create a permissionless, decentralized, censorship proof group chat platform. Role responsibilities include developing new features, creating and enhancing components in our QML UI toolkit component library, advising and assisting other members of the desktop dev team with solving challenging QML UI development problems, and perhaps working on the Go backend if this is something you would enjoy.  As a team we try to match task assignment with the individual interests and passions of our team members, so there is a high degree of flexibility with regards to what you would be working on.  If you are a passionate C++/QML expert who knows all the ins and outs of C++ and QT/QML UI development this could be an ideal role for you.\n\n\nThe desktop team is spread between Europe and North America with crossover work hours being the European timezone afternoon on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Ideally you will be located in a timezone between UTC -8 and UTC +3 e.g. anywhere in-between Panama and Moscow.  Work is async using Status, Google Meet and Github, typically in Scrum Sprints.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n\n\n\nBuild new features, enhance existing functionality and fix issues in the Status Desktop application.\n\nHelp develop and maintain Status’s QML UI component library (primarily used by the Status Desktop product)\n\nAdvise and assist the other developers in the Desktop team as needed to help solve the hardest QML UI development challenges\n\nContribute to C++ and Go codebases (and help with transitioning the codebase from Nim to C++ if you join us prior to this transition being completed), but don’t worry if you don’t have any prior Go or Nim experience.\n\nBe one of our resident experts for everything related to C++ and Qt/QML UI development.\n\n\n\n\nYou ideally will have\n\n\n\nDon’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role!\n\n\nExpert level experience implementing UIs using Qt/QML/C++\n\nA strong ability to think about components and modules as they relate to other components as part of a larger system\n\nA very strong attention to detail and the willingness to deliver pixel perfect UI according to the designs.\n\nProvide feedback and product ideas to the designers as needed\n\nExperience with multithreading / concurrency\n\nGood communication skills in English\n\nA strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles  We are a passion driven project on a mission to build tools that protect and enable free speech. \n\n\n\nBonus points if you have\n\n\nExperience working in an open source organization\n\nA strong interest in blockchain technology and have a good understanding of Ethereum.\n\nWorked in a remote distributed environment that values asynchronous communication\n\nKnowledge of Go and/or Nim and/or Solidity is a plus\n\nExperience with using QT/QML to develop cross platform (Windows, OSX, Linux) desktop applications and mobile applications (iOS, Android) is a plus\n\nPrior experience with using Squish for functional testing QT apps\n\nExperience implementing openGL rendering in a QML context\n\nAny background or experience with cryptography and/or security\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\nWe are happy to pay in either 100% fiat or any mix of fiat and/or crypto.\n\n\n\nHiring process\n\n\n\nThe hiring process for this role is usually as follows (sometimes adapted):\n\nIntroductory conversation - Talent team\n\n3 Technical Interviews with Desktop Qt/QML Developers\n\nTeam lead interview - Iuri, Desktop Team Lead\n\n'Meet the Desktop team' interviews with 3-4 Desktop Contributors (30-40m each)\n\n\nQuestions about this role?\nFeel free to get in touch, we are more than happy to discuss the role in more detail.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Solidity, Crypto, Ethereum, Testing, Node, Mobile, Senior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote (Worldwide)

\nAbout Status\nStatus is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. \nWith the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.\nAs an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. \nAs a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol; the p2p communication layer for Web3.\nAs a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. \nWe care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.\n\n\n\n \n\nThe role\n\n\n\n\nStatus Desktop is currently in beta for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. Current product focus is on the privacy-centric messenger and group chat functionality, and we’ve just kicked off development of our new ‘multi-chain from the ground up’ crypto Wallet. ÐApp browser and blockchain node functionality will follow next. Status desktop is currently built using Nim & QT for the frontend, and it shares a common backend with Status mobile that is written in Go. We are currently in the middle of a large refactor of our architecture. This refactor includes transitioning the QT front end from Nim to C++, moving all business logic to our status-go backend, and upgrading from QT5.14.2 to QT6.2. As we work in the open and are fully open source you can get a better idea of who we are and the work we are doing by browsing our team wiki here and taking a look at our Status Desktop, Status Desktop QML component library and Status Desktop and Mobile Go backend GitHub repos. You can find more information about our desktop effort in this blog post. \n\nStatus is looking for multiple senior experienced C++/QML UI devs to join our growing desktop dev team and to work with us to create a permissionless, decentralized, censorship proof group chat platform. Role responsibilities include developing new features, creating and enhancing components in our QML UI toolkit component library, advising and assisting other members of the desktop dev team with solving challenging QML UI development problems, and perhaps working on the Go backend if this is something you would enjoy. As a team we try to match task assignment with the individual interests and passions of our team members, so there is a high degree of flexibility with regards to what you would be working on. If you are a passionate C++/QML expert who knows all the ins and outs of C++ and QT/QML UI development this could be an ideal role for you.\n\n \nThe desktop team is spread between Europe and North America with crossover work hours being the European timezone afternoon on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Ideally you will be located in a timezone between UTC -8 and UTC +3 e.g. anywhere in-between Panama and Moscow. Work is async using Status, Google Meet and Github, typically in Scrum Sprints.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n\n\n\nBuild new features, enhance existing functionality and fix issues in the Status Desktop application.\n\nHelp develop and maintain Status’s QML UI component library (primarily used by the Status Desktop product)\n\nAdvise and assist the other developers in the Desktop team as needed to help solve the hardest QML UI development challenges\n\nContribute to C++ and Go codebases (and help with transitioning the codebase from Nim to C++ if you join us prior to this transition being completed), but don’t worry if you don’t have any prior Go or Nim experience.\n\nBe one of our resident experts for everything related to C++ and Qt/QML UI development.\n\n\n\n\nYou ideally will have\n\n\n\nDon’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role!\n\n\nExpert level experience implementing UIs using Qt/QML/C++\n\nA strong ability to think about components and modules as they relate to other components as part of a larger system\n\nA very strong attention to detail and the willingness to deliver pixel perfect UI according to the designs.\n\nProvide feedback and product ideas to the designers as needed\n\nExperience with multithreading / concurrency\n\nGood communication skills in English\n\nA strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles We are a passion driven project on a mission to build tools that protect and enable free speech. \n\n\n\nBonus points if you have\n\n\nExperience working in an open source organization\n\nA strong interest in blockchain technology and have a good understanding of Ethereum.\n\nWorked in a remote distributed environment that values asynchronous communication\n\nKnowledge of Go and/or Nim and/or Solidity is a plus\n\nExperience with using QT/QML to develop cross platform (Windows, OSX, Linux) desktop applications and mobile applications (iOS, Android) is a plus\n\nPrior experience with using Squish for functional testing QT apps\n\nExperience implementing openGL rendering in a QML context\n\nAny background or experience with cryptography and/or security\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\nWe are happy to pay in either 100% fiat or any mix of fiat and/or crypto.\n\n\n\nHiring process\n\n\n\nThe hiring process for this role is usually as follows (sometimes adapted):\n\nIntroductory conversation - Talent team\n\n3 Technical Interviews with Desktop Qt/QML Developers\n\nTeam lead interview - Iuri, Desktop Team Lead\n\n'Meet the Desktop team' interviews with 3-4 Desktop Contributors (30-40m each)\n\n\nQuestions about this role?\nFeel free to get in touch, we are more than happy to discuss the role in more detail.\n \n\n\n\n \n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Solidity, Crypto, Ethereum, Testing, Node, Mobile, Senior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote (Worldwide)

\nAbout Status\nStatus is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. \nWith the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.\nAs an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. \nAs a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol; the p2p communication layer for Web3.\nAs a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. \nWe care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.\n\n\n\n \n\nThe role\n\n\n\n\nStatus Desktop is currently in beta for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. Current product focus is on the privacy-centric messenger and group chat functionality, and we’ve just kicked off development of our new ‘multi-chain from the ground up’ crypto Wallet. ÐApp browser and blockchain node functionality will follow next. Status desktop is currently built using Nim & QT for the frontend, and it shares a common backend with Status mobile that is written in Go. We are currently in the middle of a large refactor of our architecture. This refactor includes transitioning the QT front end from Nim to C++, moving all business logic to our status-go backend, and upgrading from QT5.14.2 to QT6.2. As we work in the open and are fully open source you can get a better idea of who we are and the work we are doing by browsing our team wiki here and taking a look at our Status Desktop, Status Desktop QML component library and Status Desktop and Mobile Go backend GitHub repos. You can find more information about our desktop effort in this blog post. \n\nStatus is looking for multiple senior experienced C++/QML UI devs to join our growing desktop dev team and to work with us to create a permissionless, decentralized, censorship proof group chat platform. Role responsibilities include developing new features, creating and enhancing components in our QML UI toolkit component library, advising and assisting other members of the desktop dev team with solving challenging QML UI development problems, and perhaps working on the Go backend if this is something you would enjoy. As a team we try to match task assignment with the individual interests and passions of our team members, so there is a high degree of flexibility with regards to what you would be working on. If you are a passionate C++/QML expert who knows all the ins and outs of C++ and QT/QML UI development this could be an ideal role for you.\n\n \nThe desktop team is spread between Europe and North America with crossover work hours being the European timezone afternoon on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Ideally you will be located in a timezone between UTC -8 and UTC +3 e.g. anywhere in-between Panama and Moscow. Work is async using Status, Google Meet and Github, typically in Scrum Sprints.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n\n\n\nBuild new features, enhance existing functionality and fix issues in the Status Desktop application.\n\nHelp develop and maintain Status’s QML UI component library (primarily used by the Status Desktop product)\n\nAdvise and assist the other developers in the Desktop team as needed to help solve the hardest QML UI development challenges\n\nContribute to C++ and Go codebases (and help with transitioning the codebase from Nim to C++ if you join us prior to this transition being completed), but don’t worry if you don’t have any prior Go or Nim experience.\n\nBe one of our resident experts for everything related to C++ and Qt/QML UI development.\n\n\n\n\nYou ideally will have\n\n\n\nDon’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role!\n\n\nExpert level experience implementing UIs using Qt/QML/C++\n\nA strong ability to think about components and modules as they relate to other components as part of a larger system\n\nA very strong attention to detail and the willingness to deliver pixel perfect UI according to the designs.\n\nProvide feedback and product ideas to the designers as needed\n\nExperience with multithreading / concurrency\n\nGood communication skills in English\n\nA strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles We are a passion driven project on a mission to build tools that protect and enable free speech. \n\n\n\nBonus points if you have\n\n\nExperience working in an open source organization\n\nA strong interest in blockchain technology and have a good understanding of Ethereum.\n\nWorked in a remote distributed environment that values asynchronous communication\n\nKnowledge of Go and/or Nim and/or Solidity is a plus\n\nExperience with using QT/QML to develop cross platform (Windows, OSX, Linux) desktop applications and mobile applications (iOS, Android) is a plus\n\nPrior experience with using Squish for functional testing QT apps\n\nExperience implementing openGL rendering in a QML context\n\nAny background or experience with cryptography and/or security\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\nWe are happy to pay in either 100% fiat or any mix of fiat and/or crypto.\n\n\n\nHiring process\n\n\n\nThe hiring process for this role is usually as follows (sometimes adapted):\n\nIntroductory conversation - Talent team\n\n3 Technical Interviews with Desktop Qt/QML Developers\n\nTeam lead interview - Iuri, Desktop Team Lead\n\n'Meet the Desktop team' interviews with 3-4 Desktop Contributors (30-40m each)\n\n\nQuestions about this role?\nFeel free to get in touch, we are more than happy to discuss the role in more detail.\n \n\n\n\n \n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web3, Solidity, Crypto, Ethereum, Testing, Node, Mobile, Senior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote (Worldwide)