Zilliqa aims to make decentralised blockchain the building block of future enterprises and applications by addressing two key limitations it faces today – scalability and security. It is building a public blockchain platform designed to meet the high scaling and security requirements of applications within the digital advertising, gaming, and financial industries. The Zilliqa project delves into a mix of different fields in Computer Science including but not limited to distributed systems, networks, system and application security, cryptography and programming languages. It offers a unique opportunity to be at the front seat of cutting-edge research advances that can open up avenues to real-world decentralized applications. Zilliqa is backed by a team of tech entrepreneurs, academics, senior engineers, venture capitalists, and more. We offer a creative work environment and a special opportunity to get involved with an ever growing blockchain community.
As a developer evangelist, you'll be responsible for growing the developer ecosystem, obtain feedback from the developers and market the Zilliqa protocol and its smart contract language to developers.
We are looking for a Developer Evangelist to helm our efforts in building out the Zilliqa developer ecosystem. This person will lead the strategy and planning for driving developer adoption of the Zilliqa platform. Candidates applying for this role are expected to have some developer experience in the past and are expected to spend ⅓ of their time coding, writing documentation, helping developers with technical questions and the remaining ⅔ of their time in evangelising and developer marketing and outreach. Candidates with no prior background in engineering should not apply for this role.
Job Responsibilities
- Growing and managing Zilliqa’s online and offline developer communities.
- Planning and managing developer-focused events such as hackathons and workshops.
- You will be expected to speak and evangelize Zilliqa and its smart contract programming language Scilla.
- Helping with documentation and developing sample decentralized apps.
- Building a strategic approach and a scalable infrastructure for events (e.g., how can we build a network of community leads to run events and meetups independently).
- Developing onboarding and educational materials for developers.
- Liaising with the community to identify and nurture community ambassadors.
- Organising developers call on hangouts to engage community developers.
Role Requirements
Traits:
- Ability to translate high-level strategy into concrete plans
- Can execute efficiently and effectively
- Ambitious thinker who can think beyond the status quo
- Works well in a team, especially with our developer and developer relations teams
- Willingness to be hands-on whenever needed, e.g. to lead events, handle event logistics, build content
- Good verbal and written communicator
- Native or fluent English speaker
Role-related knowledge and experience:
- Some prior experience in coding (particularly JavaScript) is a must and experience in doing basic development of blockchain apps is a plus
- Background or understanding of blockchains is a must
- Experience in growing and managing communities
- Experience with building scalable processes in community or events management
- Ability to communicate with developers and understand their needs, challenges, motivations
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