Decentralised Messaging Engineer – Rust

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🕒 May 5

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Institute of Free Technology

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2024

₿ Crypto

🔒 Cybersecurity

🌍 Social Impact

Crypto • Cybersecurity • Social Impact

Institute of Free Technology is a mission-driven tech startup studio that incubates and accelerates projects building public goods to protect civil liberties in the digital age. It provides financial, technical, legal, people-operations, and brand support so startups can focus on building censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving, and secure infrastructure and applications. Emerged from Status, IFT’s portfolio and principles emphasize liberty, security, inclusivity, and the free flow of information.

📋 Description

• Implement our messaging protocols in our reference SDK, translating protocol specs into reliable, production-quality Rust • Own the API design and developer experience of the SDK surface — abstractions, ergonomics, and developer-facing documentation • Contribute to messaging protocol specifications alongside the team • As a member of a small team, you'll wear many hats — picking up problems outside your immediate lane, learning as you go, and growing with the team • Write clear technical documentation and participate in async design discussions with collaborators across the project

🎯 Requirements

• Deep familiarity with real-world instant messaging systems - you've worked on, contributed to, or spent serious time understanding how systems like Signal, Matrix, XMPP, or similar are built, where they make tradeoffs, and where they struggle • Experience with decentralised computing - peer-to-peer systems, distributed networks, or decentralised application infrastructure • Comfort working directly with cryptographic primitives - signatures, ciphers, and key exchanges and an understanding of secure private messaging principles such as forward secrecy, post-compromise security, and key management • Solid Rust experience: comfortable writing reliable, maintainable code in a team setting • Previous experience with Web3, blockchains, open protocols, and the values that underpin them • A strong alignment to our principles: https://logos.co/manifesto/

🏖️ Benefits

• The expected compensation range for this role is negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.