# Junior Software Engineer at Matter Labs At [Matter Labs](https://matter-labs.io/), we are building **zkSync**: technology for scalable smart contracts with privacy, secured by the latest generation of [zero-knowledge proofs](https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs). The mission of zkSync is to scale public permissionless blockchains (such as Ethereum) to millions of users in a completely trustless manner -- relying on pure Math. Succinct zero-knowledge proofs are currently the only viable way to achieve this goal, and we are proud to be one of a few companies in the world with a strong expertise in this field. This is an ambitious and technologically challenging task with a lot of unknowns. However, if we succeed, in a few years it can have a similar impact on the global trade and finance as Skype had on the telecom industry. You can learn more about zkSync [here](https://zksync.io/faq/). ## The Role We are looking for talented aspiring software engineers to join our core team. Your task scope will include design and implementation of the zkSync smart contract platform: ZKP-compatible programming language and virtual machine, implementation of complex cryptography (see for example [this](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1400.pdf)), p2p network and consensus (we are using Facebook's LibraBFT), etc. We expect you to independently conduct research in your area of ownership, design, implement and document solutions, and potentially lead a team. ## Your profile - You are driven by passion, curiosity, and desire to make a meaningful contribution to the world. - Strong background in math, algorithms and data structures. - Ownership mindset. - Interest in Rust. - We strongly prefer candidates winners of ICMP, IOI or similar programming olympiads. ## The Offer We offer above-average compensation and equity options. You can work from one of nice our offices (Berlin/Kiev) or remotely. We have a small focused team. No time tracking, minimum bureaucracy, only results matter. We’ll provide you with anything you need to learn, grow and be more productive. All our code is [open source](https://github.com/matter-labs). ## About us Matter Labs was born out of values of freedom, self-ownership, privacy and decentralization, which the founding team is taking very seriously. Our mid-term goal is to bring 100x to 1000x more transactions to Ethereum. The grand vision is to enable practical privacy for smart contracts and to scale crypto experience to millions of people -- all of it without compromises on security and censorship-resistance. ## Contact Please shoot us your CV with a brief cover letter to hello@matterlabs.dev