Career Renew ยท 3 months ago
Staff Developer Tooling Engineer - Blockchain
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expCareer Renew is recruiting for one of its clients seeking a Staff Developer Tooling Engineer - Blockchain for a fully-remote role. This position involves leading the development of developer tools and SDKs, ensuring a seamless developer experience while collaborating with internal teams and the external developer community.
Management Consulting
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain our Open Source SDKs and related tooling that enable developers to integrate easily with our platform
Champion and implement best-in-class developer experience standards across all tooling
Work hands-on across multiple programming languages, frameworks, and protocols
Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing architectural vision and technical guidance
Consume and produce high-quality RESTful, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs with a clean, consistent design
Design, integrate, and enhance developer workflows across popular IDEs (e.g., VS Code, IntelliJ) and debugging tools to streamline the development experience
Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, protocol engineers, and user-facing teams to align tools with real-world developer needs
Serve as a technical voice and mission-driven leader, helping rally and inspire the team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of hands-on experience in Java, C++, JavaScript, Python, Go, Swift, and/or Rust
Proven experience in designing, developing, and maintaining SDKs or developer platforms
Experience in technologies like PBJ, Clpr, and/or Block Nodes
Strong focus on delivering delightful developer experiences; empathy for API consumers
Ability to technically lead and mentor engineers across functions and geographies
Experience in consuming and producing APIs
Strong understanding of modern IDE internals and debugging protocols (e.g., DAP, GDB, LLDB) with hands-on experience extending or customizing IDE/debugger functionality
Customer-oriented mindset with a bias toward action and a track record of delivering results, even through ambiguity or setbacks
Self-driven and curious learner, comfortable diving deep into new or complex systems
Passionate about mission-driven work and capable of rallying teams around shared goals
Strong Communication Skills
Collaborative Mindset
Adaptability
Commitment to continuous learning and improvement
Preferred
Experience with Web3 Apps, Decentralised Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and/or Blockchains
Background in writing smart contracts for Ethereum or other EVM-based chains
Familiarity with gRPC and Protocol Buffers for high-performance API communication
Contributions to open-source SDKs, devtools, or infrastructure libraries
Benefits
Equity & Tokens
Performance Bonuses
Health insurance & 401k for US employees only.
Company
Career Renew
Career Renew aims to transform the job search process by making it easier for candidates
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase