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Giga Blockchain Developer

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Contract type: Consultancy

Application deadline: 18 November 2024, at 11.55 pm CET

Link to apply via UNICEF Portal

Summary

​​Giga is seeking a blockchain developer who can work with a diverse, global, and interdisciplinary team to help us build and then scale tools and products that support the successful, on-the-ground implementation of the Giga project. Giga team is scattered across the world, but our blockchain team is mainly working from different locations in Europe.

Your responsibilities will be…
  • Work closely with the Product Manager and the Mapping & Tech Lead, to work on the development of Giga blockchain products (Connectivity credits platform, accounting platform, Giga Blocks)
  • Engage with vendors and other software partners that are supporting us to build new products, APIs, and distributed infrastructures worldwide.
  • Build new prototypes and tools that support the current Giga project, as well as scale features in existing ones.
  • Support and maintain, including documentation, software and products related to Giga.
  • Work closely with other parts of the team to explore collaboration and integration.

Please access the full Term of Reference (ToRs) and read a more detailed description of the assignment in this file in order to prepare your financial proposal and know more about the role: Blockchain Developer.pdf.

To qualify for this position, you will have…
  • A master’s degree in computer science or related field. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
  • A minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience in software development, with at least two (2) years of experience in blockchain development.
  • Experience working as part of a fully staffed scrum team.
  • Experience in building software prototypes and extensible APIs.
  • Strong knowledge of Ethereum-like blockchains and ability to design and implement smart contracts.
  • Understanding of both fungible and non-fungible tokens.
  • Having built public smart contracts or web3 apps is a great advantage.
  • Good knowledge of a scripting language such as JavaScript will be highly useful.
  • Experience with one or more language for backend development.
  • Experience with relational databases.
  • Experience with cloud services, like AWS, Azure.
  • Knowledge of computer networks and understanding how ISP (Internet Service Providers) work is an asset.
  • Experienced and comfortable with remote team dynamics, process, and tools (Slack, Zoom, etc.)
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency conditions is considered an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Travel:
  • The consultant is expected to travel to Geneva one time (1 trip), for a stay of 5 nights.
  • The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa and travel insurance.
Payment details and further considerations:
  • Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
  • The consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance.
  • The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa.
How to apply:
  • Interested applicants are required to submit a financial proposal with an all-inclusive fee.  Please see the financial proposal template here: Download File Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
  • Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance.
  • Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.
About our team

We are a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, finance specialists, data scientists, policy experts, and much more. Our team is a distributed workforce and plans to remain distributed into the foreseeable future. We are growing fast. Our team has grown by over 400% in the last 6 months as we rapidly scale to meet our stated mission.

About Giga

Giga is a joint initiative of UNICEF and ITU to connect every school in the world to the Internet by 2030. Working with corporate and non-profit partners, Giga maps schools’ Internet access in real time, creates models for innovative financing, and supports governments contracting for connectivity. It is part of ITU’s Partner2 Connect Coalition, UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative, and the UN Secretary General’s Common Agenda and Roadmap for Digital Cooperation 

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About UNICEF

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up. 

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives. 

About ITU

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), driving innovation in ICTs together with 193 Member States and a membership of over 900 companies, universities, and international and regional organizations.