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Senior Fullstack Engineer
About Sequent
Sequent is an innovative VC-backed startup that revolutionizes the digital election space by introducing a cryptographically secure, verifiable, and transparent online voting solution for both private and public elections. Sequent is developing an open-core, research-backed solution that utilizes advanced cryptographic algorithms to provide irrefutable mathematical proof that votes are cast and counted correctly and the election results are accurate. We help election managers have the confidence and tools they need to enable voters to vote remotely, digitally, and conveniently from anywhere in the world.
Sequent’s solution has been used in more than 200 elections to date. Over 3.2 million votes have been successfully counted on the platform across countries such as Spain, Germany, the United States, Canada, and South Africa. The platform has been utilized by local and regional government authorities, as well as public organizations such as political parties, professional associations, unions, universities, and more.
Sequent is an official member of the Amazon AWS GovTechStart Program, a dedicated program for companies focused on building the next generation of technology solutions for state and local government agencies using the AWS Cloud. In addition, Sequent is a portfolio company of the Microsoft for Startups program and an active contributor to the Microsoft ElectionGuard Project – an open-source software development kit (SDK) that makes voting more secure, transparent and accessible.
What You Will Do
As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you’ll join our engineering team to:
- Develop product features and improvements in accordance with the product roadmap and in a secure, well-tested, documented, and performant way.
- Code mainly in Rust and Typescript, sometimes other languages like Java, Go and DevOps/Kubernetes tools. You will need to learn new languages and tools in response to a changing technological landscape.
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance and solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices and tooling.
- Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members, taking full ownership of your tickets. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Support real-time elections to assist in troubleshooting any live issue with product operations, deployments security, and urgent engineering issues.
You're an ideal candidate if you have:
- At least 5 years of professional programming experience, preferably with strong skills in Rust and React, Typescript and GraphQL.
- Experience building web-based applications that were used by thousands, potentially millions of end-users.
- A solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and core Typescript/Javascript concepts.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, or motivation to learn.
- Strong communication skills, in the English language, both written and verbal.
- Experience working remotely and in a largely asynchronous work environment.
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
Nice to have skills:
- Knowledge of security concepts, vulnerabilities, mitigation techniques, and secure coding practices.
- A keen interest and experience with open source projects.
Why Join Sequent?
When you join Sequent, you will be given the opportunity to:
- Become a core team member of a young, innovative startup that's helping to shape the future of digital elections worldwide.
- Develop your skills in highly secure, verifiable, and cryptographic-based (voting) systems built with the latest technologies, such as Rust, and adhere to the highest performance standards.
- Work in an open-minded company environment, with a culture of honesty, efficiency, internal incentives and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Work remotely with a team of experts who prioritize results over rigid schedules.
- Choose where to work from - at home, the office, or a co-working space, from anywhere in the world.
- Receive equity compensation and have access to our Employee Stock Plan.
Our Culture & Values
At Sequent, we are committed to:
- Technical excellence: delivering top-tier technology and software.
- Customer obsession: ensuring unparalleled user satisfaction and trusted solutions.
- Impressive agility: swiftly addressing user feedback with new features and fixes.
- Bold innovation: continuously challenging the status quo for better solutions.
- Open source & open mind: contributing to the open-source and research community to promote transparency that generates trust and fosters collaboration.
We are excited to discover more about your skills, experiences, and aspirations. Please send your resume to [email protected]