Facebook Seeks Wallet Engineers as Blockchain Job Openings Top 30

Facebook is looking to hire more than 30 blockchain professionals, including six engineers for the Calibra crypto wallet.

AccessTimeIconJun 27, 2019 at 4:45 p.m. UTC
Updated Aug 18, 2021 at 1:03 p.m. UTC

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Facebook is looking to hire more than 30 professionals to ramp up its blockchain work, including the Libra cryptocurrency.

The social media giant's career website now lists 31 job openings requiring some blockchain expertise. Six of them are for Calibra, Facebook's wallet app for Libra. These are all jobs for data scientists and engineers, who will analyze how users interact with Calibra and other Facebook services.

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  • "The wallet will be the delivery vehicle for many financial services starting with personal payments, but expanding to online and offline commerce and eventually lending and personal financial management," the job description says.

    The blockchain team is also recruiting legal and regulatory firepower in the form of a lead commercial counsel; a lead product counsel; a lead international blockchain counsel in Singapore who will be in charge of compliance across various jurisdictions; and a public policy manager, who will provide "payments and blockchain regulatory policy development."

    The list also includes security engineers and UX researchers.

    Last week, Facebook formally unveiled its vision for Libra, a price-stable cryptocurrency intended to bring billions into the global financial system, with companies like Visa, Mastercard, Uber, Lyft, and PayPal on board.

    The reveal riled politicians and regulators around the world, with the G7 creating a task force to study Libra's implications, the U.S. Congress scheduling hearings for July 16 and 17 and the Bank of England's president promising the project would receive proper scrutiny.

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