DeFi Protocol Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Develop, maintain, and evaluate essential components of the Cosmos-SDK protocol, which includes the decentralized orderbook, trade execution coordinator, order matcher, and Layer-2 execution environment.

• Create and implement on-chain financial instruments such as derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing, and risk management logic.

• Enhance and optimize the core functionality of the Injective blockchain, including consensus mechanisms, state management, financial infrastructure, and various applications.

• Take ownership of features from inception to completion, encompassing requirements gathering, specifications, architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment.

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

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

• Work collaboratively with front-end developers, back-end developers, and quality assurance engineers.

• Engage with external partners and open-source communities to enrich the blockchain ecosystem.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Significant experience in finance, ideally in the development of trading systems, exchanges, or algorithmic trading/derivatives platforms at a bank, trading firm, or exchange.

• Proven history of constructing large, complex, and high-performance distributed systems in a production environment.

• Experience with a minimum of two substantial and high-performing production Golang codebases.

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

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

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

• Self-motivated and capable of managing problems independently with minimal supervision.

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

• Familiarity with Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint.

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

• Experience with low-latency or high-throughput trading infrastructure.

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

• Familiarity with key-value databases, particularly those used by cosmos-sdk.

• Experience with Ethereum/Solidity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and INJ token awards.

• A remote-friendly work environment with flexible hours.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Provision of equipment.

• Home Office Stipend.

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

• A collaborative team culture that encourages professional growth and development.

• Global team meetups.