DeFi Protocol Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛓️ Blockchain Engineer

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Injective

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Web 3 • Fintech

Injective is a layer-1 blockchain platform built for decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 applications, offering fast, low-cost transactions, EVM compatibility, and pre-built, plug-and-play modules that simplify building financial dApps. It operates a native token (INJ) used for staking and governance, supports asset bridging, validators, and an ecosystem of wallets, exchanges, and institutional partners focused on on-chain markets and financial products.

📋 Description

• Build, maintain, and test core components on the Cosmos-SDK protocol, including the decentralized orderbook, trade execution coordinator, order matcher, and Layer-2 execution environment • Design and implement financial primitives on-chain, including derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing, and risk logic • Develop and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain, including consensus, state management, financial infrastructure, and applications • Take end-to-end ownership of features from requirement gathering and specifications through architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment • Write open-source Golang clients for direct interaction with the protocol and smart contracts • Contribute to research and development of new blockchain features and technologies • Collaborate with front-end developers, back-end developers, and quality assurance engineers to deliver blockchain solutions • Collaborate with external partners and open-source communities to enhance the blockchain ecosystem

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Blockchain Engineer • Strong prior experience in finance, ideally building trading systems, exchanges, or algo trading/derivatives platforms at a bank, trading firm, or exchange • Track record of building large, complex, and performant distributed systems in production • Worked on at least two production Golang codebases that are reasonably large and performant • Strong knowledge of Go idioms, libraries, and parallel processing • Strong knowledge of blockchain, DeFi & DEX concepts, consensus mechanisms, CosmWasm contract platform • Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals such as data structures and API design • Self-driven and comfortable owning problems end-to-end with minimal oversight • Ability to communicate technical concepts with other technical and non-technical team members • Experience with Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint • Deep knowledge of financial instruments and markets (derivatives, credit, perpetuals, options) • Experience with low-latency or high-throughput trading infrastructure • Experience with cryptography libraries, including digital signatures and hash algorithms used by Ethereum and Cosmos • Experience with key-value databases, especially ones used by cosmos-sdk • Experience with Ethereum/Solidity

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and INJ token award • Remote-friendly work environment with flexible hours • Unlimited PTO • Equipment • Home Office Stipend • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge blockchain technology in the finance industry • Collaborative team culture with opportunities for professional growth and development • Global team meetups

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