DeFi Protocol Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛓️ Blockchain Engineer

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Injective Labs

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11 - 50 employees

🌐 Web 3

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

Web 3 • Crypto • Finance

Injective Labs is a research and development company that focuses on creating advanced Web3 infrastructure and finance solutions. It is a key contributor to Injective, a sector-specific blockchain tailored for finance, featuring smart contracts and high interoperability with major blockchain platforms like Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos. Injective Labs powers developments in decentralized finance (DeFi) through projects such as Helix, a decentralized orderbook crypto exchange, and Mito, a next-gen DeFi protocol with strategy vaults and a token launchpad. Additionally, the company operates sophisticated validator nodes, contributing to the security and development of various Web3 projects and networks. Injective Labs is committed to fostering a decentralized financial future through its innovative infrastructural solutions.

📋 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 on-chain financial primitives such as derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing, and risk logic • Develop and optimize core Injective blockchain components, including consensus, state management, financial infrastructure, and applications • Own features end-to-end from requirements 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 • 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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