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Developer Relations Engineer - IBC About the Company Interchain is a young, ambitious, and values-led team working on the core blockchain technology of the Interchain ecosystem and the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol (IBC). We're headquartered in Berlin, Germany, but our team stretches from the east coast of the US to eastern Europe. We keep in touch through Github, Slack, Discord, and Zoom, and meet in person periodically. All in all, the software we develop secures billions of dollars in value across many different systems, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We strive to build world-class software while having plenty of laughs along the way. One of our company's responsibilities is improving developer relations within the Interchain ecosystem, for developers building with IBC, but also the wider Interchain tech stack (Tendermint Core, Cosmos SDK, IBC and CosmWasm). To tackle this challenge, you'll be interacting with both core product and engineering teams internally in the IBC team, as well as the marketing and community teams internally at Interchain. On top of that, it's important to maintain and establish relationships with developer experience profiles across the ecosystem. About the Team You'll be joining the IBC team at Interchain. We are maintaining both the IBC specification and the ibc-go implementation and are one of the core contributors to IBC as a public good. At the moment, the team - 9 strong - consists of a product and engineering team, but you'll be joining as our second devrels to form a separate vertical, operating as glue between product and engineering. We care deeply about creating a second-to-none team culture, where we value trust, accountability, respect, along with community and good vibes. About the Role The definition of “developer relations” is often not entirely clarified due to its multifaceted nature, but we think of it as comprising these subdomains: dev community, dev education, dev marketing and dev success, together forming the dev experience. This is a broad spectrum - we know - and we aim to find a balance between finding new hires that complement existing team members by excelling in one of these areas while still having a diverse enough skill set to keep the lights on while your team member is unavailable. It's always nice when someone has your back when you're totally immersed in that demo you're building! Generally this takes the form of tutorials, blog posts, workshops, presentations, documentation and supporting users in our community channels. We're looking for someone who can get creative with ways to reach our audience of builders and who can take initiative on more adventurous ideas, whether they be proof-of-concept applications or anything that sparks interest and curiosity in our products. The Interchain ecosystem also includes a number of ambitious teams who push our software to its limits. As part of this role, you'll be working with some of the best projects in the industry, understanding their needs and supporting them through public chat channels, calls, code reviews, pointing them to existing resources, or writing how-to posts—anything that makes synthesizing the broad scope of IBC related technologies more readily available. Below you'll find a list of the most important results we're striving to achieve on the DevRels front: We are a first-in-line builder with our own technology, employing ibc-go as well as tightly related products (eg. relayer software) to build expertise with the product stack in a similar way our users do. We make the product owner (and through them, the rest of the team) aware of meaningful pain points that production devs are reporting and feature requests that are being made. We ensure the team's documentation page is up to date, complete, and sufficiently usable to users and users know how to discover it. On top of that, we coordinate with other core contributors to IBC to make sure the entire IBC journey is documented. We make sure users are supported through Discord (Cosmos Dev Discord and IBC Gang) and other channels that are being developed. We ensure regular public facing content is produced (e.g. blogs, tutorials, code along videos) We take an active part in the Interchain DevEx group and its working groups to stay in touch with ecosystem tech and their representatives. IBC does not operate in isolated silos. About you We want to find motivated people that are open-minded, diligent and kind. You should be comfortable working with remote employees, which means using video calls and frequent written communication. We are mindful of personal or family situations and we thus offer a flexible work schedule and the possibility to work part-time. We don't have any specific criteria regarding previous experience, but we're looking for candidates who ideally have: Passion and curiosity for emerging technologies, a learning mindset. This is an exciting sector of technology and your enthusiasm should be infectious as you seek out new information and work towards synthesizing it for others. As a developer relations engineer, you're first and foremost a lifelong learner! Clarity of thought in written and spoken language. It will be important for you to be able to answer questions like “How does it work?” and “Why does it matter?” in a way that is accessible to people just entering the space. Familiarity with Web3 technology. The Interchain Stack can be a lot to take in. Familiarity with the Cosmos SDK or even CosmWasm through the Interchain Developer Academy or the CosmWasm Academy would give you that extra edge, so be sure to mention this if you're an alum of any of those programs. Generalist programming experience, golang or Rust is a plus. As a developer relations engineer for ibc-go, you'll be interacting with developers constantly. This will involve reading (and to a lesser extent, writing) code in golang, the language of the Cosmos SDK and ibc-go. Additionally, we are trying to cover the increasing importance of IBC being used by CosmWasm smart contracts that are written in Rust. While knowledge in golang and/or Rust will give you an edge, having a broad level of general experience will be more valuable than any deep domain-specific knowledge. Remember the learning mindset? Hands-on mentality. You realize the importance of having effective processes and workflows in place, and never start a project blindly without considering the context. But most of all you like to just roll up the sleeves and get to it. Team player, building relationships. IBC connects, and so do you. Both internally and externally. Not afraid of a long to-do list. The Interchain is ever evolving and more and more developers are discovering the Interchain stack and IBC. This means there won't be any shortage of opportunities to work on. Being able to manage time and prioritize is a valuable asset to have. Demonstrated ability to take ownership. You finish what you start and keep a high standard of quality. You take pride in your work. A home base within our working timezones. You are probably based in a timezone between UTC-5:00 (New York) and UTC+3:00 (Moscow). Not sure if you're a fit? Please feel free to apply anyways, and we'll take it from there. Interchain believes that great people come from a broad range of backgrounds, and that the diversity of our team is one of our strengths. Discrimination has no place at Interchain and we do not discriminate on the bases of race, colour, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. We are committed to fighting bias and discrimination in our workplace and in our communities.