Software Engineer, Language

*Remote within the UK, Switzerland or USA*

The Daml Language team is responsible for the development of the Daml compiler and the interpreter for our intermediate language Daml-LF. This role is focused on the latter. You’ll be working on the design and implementation of new language features in the interpreter, performance improvements all while ensuring backwards compatibility for existing language features.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement new language features in the Daml-LF interpreter implemented in Scala
• Improve interpretation performance as well as storage and transport size of the resulting transactions
• Work closely with the ledger teams in rolling out new language features across the entire stack
• Design and roll out changes while always keeping a close eye on backwards compatibility

Key Criteria

• Good programming skills in a functional language preferably Scala or Haskell
• Experience working on compilers and/or interpreters or other runtimes, ideally for a functional language
• Nice to have: Experience working with protobuf or similar interface description languages

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