DeFi Protocol Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop, sustain, and evaluate essential components of the Cosmos-SDK protocol, including the decentralized order book, trade execution coordinator, order matcher, and Layer-2 execution environment.

• Create and execute financial primitives on-chain, encompassing derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing, and risk management logic.

• Build and enhance core elements of the Injective blockchain, such as consensus, state management, financial infrastructure, and applications.

• Assume complete ownership of features from gathering requirements and drafting specifications to architecture design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

• Develop open-source Golang clients for direct interaction with the protocol and smart contracts.

• Contribute to the research and development of new blockchain features and technologies.

• Work collaboratively with front-end developers, back-end developers, and quality assurance engineers to deliver blockchain solutions.

• Partner with external collaborators and open-source communities to enrich the blockchain ecosystem.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as a Blockchain Engineer.

• Solid background in finance, preferably in developing trading systems, exchanges, or algorithmic trading/derivatives platforms at a bank, trading firm, or exchange.

• Proven experience in building large, complex, and efficient distributed systems in a production environment.

• Involved in at least two sizable and high-performing production Golang codebases.

• Strong understanding of Go idioms, libraries, and parallel processing.

• Comprehensive knowledge of blockchain, DeFi & DEX concepts, consensus mechanisms, and the CosmWasm contract platform.

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and API design.

• Self-motivated and capable of owning problems from start to finish with minimal supervision.

• Ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members.

• Experience with Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint.

• In-depth knowledge of financial instruments and markets (derivatives, credit, perpetuals, options).

• Familiarity with low-latency or high-throughput trading infrastructures.

• Experience with cryptography libraries, including digital signatures and hash algorithms utilized by Ethereum and Cosmos.

• Knowledge of key-value databases, particularly those employed by cosmos-sdk.

• Experience with Ethereum/Solidity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and INJ token award.

• Remote-friendly work environment with flexible hours.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Equipment provided.

• Home Office Stipend.

• Opportunity to engage with cutting-edge blockchain technology in the finance sector.

• Collaborative team culture with chances for professional growth and development.

• Global team meetups.