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Ithaca is a company designed to accelerate the crypto frontier, having raised $20M from Paradigm. With a small team of engineers, Ithaca develops and releases open source tools for the cryptocurrency landscape, focusing on creating sustainable development practices. 

Their first major project, Odyssey, is an open-source Layer 2 testnet built to enhance consumer experiences in crypto by making transactions faster, cheaper, and more secure. 

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51 - 200 employees


Founded 2024

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

Rust Engineer
5 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

Distributed Systems

Open Source

Rust

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📋 Description
• Crypto must go faster.
• We have started Ithaca, a company designed to accelerate the crypto frontier, and have raised $20M from Paradigm.
• Our global group of less than 20 engineers has shipped some of the industry’s most used open source tools like Reth & Foundry.
• The stack is ready. We can achieve the step-level changes needed to enable consumers to fully leverage crypto with fast, cheap, global and private experiences.
• As a Reth Engineer at Ithaca, you will primarily work on our blazing-fast Ethereum execution client.
• You will be responsible for rapidly shipping new cutting-edge features and support our ambitious mission towards breaking through one gigagas per second and beyond.
• Our ideal candidate comes with a T-shaped skillset, a wide range of technical breath and deep knowledge in a specific area across our stack (rpc, p2p, networking, database, performance, optimisation, debugging).
• We’re looking for engineers that can support us with shipping robust code, shipping performant code and shipping more code, faster.
• By joining our team, we offer an exciting opportunity for you to contribute to core open-source crypto infrastructure and the ability to solve novel and complex problems.

🎯 Requirements
• Strong Software engineering background and experience in building scalable, distributed systems.
• Deep familiarity with the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly EVM and Execution Layer.
• Engineers with a strong sense of ownership, passion to continuously improve existing systems, with an ability to work autonomously and solve problems independently.
• A collaborative and self-driven individual with excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Passionate about open-source development, contributing actively through code reviews and supporting community inquiries.
• A deep understanding of the Rust language and ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience working across with whole Ethereum stack (e.g. Execution clients, Consensus clients, smart contracts) as well as Ethereum testing tools (Kurtosis, EEST).
• Proven open-source project contributions.