Developer Relations Lead

Overview

The Heliax team is hiring! Heliax is the lead development team behind the Anoma and Namada protocols.

Anoma is the universal intent machine, introducing intent-centric architecture for a new paradigm of human-centric applications. Anoma provides a universal multichain interface for building fully decentralized intent-centric apps that can satisfy user needs and preferences across any network. Enabling decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, and multichain atomic settlement, Anoma removes the need for complicated UX, addrsses coordination problems, and paves the way for a user controlled internet.

Namada is the shielded asset hub rewarding users to protect the multichain. Enabling full control over the sharing of personal data in on-chain activities, Namada uses advanced ZK cryptography to deliver unparalleled data protection to existing assets, applications, and blockchain networks. Namada introduces shielded cross-chain interactions and passive rewards for holding assets in and strengthening its shielded set.

Heliax receives funding from the Anoma Foundation which has raised over $60M from some of the top backers in the space including Polychain, Electric Capital, Delphi and more.

The Role

The systems of coordination and finance in our world today are not secure enough for safe use by citizens, corporations or other stakeholders. Heliax is looking for a Developer Relations Lead interested in helping external developers with writing Anoma applications development in Juvix, a language for intent-centric and declarative decentralized applications. To get a sense of the current state of Anoma applications, checkout libraries and end-to-end applications we are currently developing.

As we’re gearing up for Anoma’s first public testnet and the developer tooling, we’re looking for extra hands to help us out with writing example dApps on Anoma, developer documentation, developer guides and how-tos, help us spread the word about the project virtually or in person - and any other things that show the world how cool the stack is and help grow the community of Anoma developers.

Responsibilities

• Write developer documentation, technical articles, developer guides, tutorials, and other forms of content for developers
• Support the community in broad reach channels such as Discord and the Anoma forums
• Directly engage with the developer community through talks, conferences, meetups, hackathons, workshops, training, and other education channels.
• Develop technical content to simplify development for other developers.
• Synthesize and share feedback from the developer community with the compilers team in order to help improve Juvix.
• Identify and source developer communities who might want to use Juvix.
• Develop educational materials to help people understand Juvix tech stack as well as foundational concepts around zero-knowledge technology.
• Create a newsletter, forum, etc where developers can get regular updates on Juvix.
• Attending and speaking at events.
• Build and grow a Juvix developer community.
• Guide and educate developers to maximize their developer experience.
• Be a technical advisor to Marketing, Business Development, and other non-engineering functions.
• Identify key integration opportunities and work with partners on integrations.

Qualifications

• Experience as a developer is essential; Experience as a DevRel, developer advocate, developer community management, or related domain.
• Development skills: a Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience, 2+ years of blockchain / decentralized application development experience.
• Presentation skills: The ability to present complex technical ideas to developers.
• Education skills: The ability to craft educational/training content.
• Ability to travel: You will be required to travel to international conferences and quarterly offsites in Europe.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.
• Individuals who are self-starters, have an entrepreneurial mindset and are hungry to learn.
• Solid understanding of blockchain and zero-knowledge technology.
• Experience building educational programs for the developer community.

Nice-to-Haves

• Intermediate understanding of Git/GitHub and general coding knowledge.
• Familiarity with functional programming
• Ability to do dev-rels work for Namada as well

Location

Remote or local (Zug/Berlin). When remote, preferred if located within (+/- 7 hours) Central European time zones.