About The Company

Swarm Foundation (SF) is a non-profit organization established in 2021 in Switzerland. It is a key organization at the forefront of decentralized storage and blockchain. The foundation’s mission is to empower digital freedom by promoting the development and maintenance of the Swarm network and its community. Swarm Foundation does so by supporting many different initiatives worldwide, either through financial grants or other types of support. The Operations team drives the core activities that allow Swarm Foundation achieve its mission on a daily basis, either by maintaining the functioning processes or creating new ones, when needed. Swarm Foundation empowers digital freedom by making data unstoppable which reclaims privacy for the individual, and brings trust into the data economy, in a decentralised, open, trustless, censorship-resistant, and game-changing way.

Job Short Description

ABOUT SWARM
Swarm is a system of peer-to-peer networked nodes that create a decentralised storage and communication service. The system is economically self-sustaining due to a built-in incentive system enforced through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.

Swarm aspires to shape the future towards a self-sovereign global society and permissionless open markets. On Swarm, applications can run autonomously yet securely in a planetary-scale deployment and execution environment.

Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for Swarm Network. Bee provides low-level constructs for file storage, feeds, key-value stores and untraceable communication.

The Swarm Bee team strives to keep things clear and simple, making reasoning and discussions efficient. In a broader sense, this applies to everything we do.

Solid, well-tested code is delivered in an agile manner.

Besides various innovative components, key technologies are libp2p, protobuf, leveldb, go-ethereum as well as various cryptographic libraries. We work with various development tools and practices to facilitate the agile development of well-tested code and timely delivery of our software.

Swarm Foundation is committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. As such, we strongly encourage women and other under-represented groups to apply for this position.



YOUR ROLE
Build and maintain a good relationship with internal and external stakeholders
Map, understand and continuously refine your understanding of the requirements of various stakeholders, such as founders, research, business and devrel.
Maintain, refine and articulate the product vision
Own the product backlog; take responsibility for properly defining and refining issues and prioritize them such that meaningful product increments are delivered each cycle
Get a good understanding of the teams velocity, to facilitate short-term estimations, as well as spot anomalies and benchmark the efficiency of the development team
Inspire your team to take responsibility for the continuous improvement of the agile development process
Facilitate transparency of the development process


YOUR PROFILE
You are enthusiastic about inspiring your team to perform at its best
You have a passion for decentralized technologies and are inspired by Swarm’s mission
You have Golang programming experience
You are flexible in thinking and doing
You like to finish things
You enjoy trying out experimental decentralized technologies first-hand
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
You are available around CET timezone
You like to work remotely and are available to travel to meet your team physically several times per year


WE APPRECIATE
Being able to read Go-lang, or willing to learn
Being comfortable with facilitating meetings that are relevant to your role
Good grasp of distributed systems
Understanding of cypherpunk mentality



WE OFFER
An open, flat and transparent work environment
100% remote-friendly
Flexible working hours
We care about our swarm: Incentives through BZZ, Swarm’s token



To apply please send your resume and motivation letter to talent@ethswarm.org