Golang/Blockchain Engineer
Required skills
- Golang
- Blockchain
- Cosmos-SDK
- orderbook
- trade execution coordinator
- order matcher
- Layer-2 execution environment
- open-source clients
- protocol
- smart contracts
Nice to have
- Tendermint
- Ethereum
- Solidity
- Layer-2
- financial instruments
- markets
Role summary
Injective Labs is seeking an accomplished Golang/Blockchain Engineer to join their highly-skilled global dev team. The role involves building and maintaining core components of the Cosmos-SDK protocol, including decentralized orderbooks and trade execution systems. Responsibilities include writing open-source Golang clients and developing high-performance REST & WebSocket APIs. The ideal candidate has experience with production Golang codebases, Geth/Erigon, Go idioms, CS fundamentals, API design, and a strong understanding of blockchain. Experience with Cosmos-SDK, Ethereum/Solidity, and financial instruments is preferred.
About Injective Labs
Injective Labs is trailblazing a new dawn for Web3 enabled finance. We are the core contributors to Injective, one of the fastest growing blockchains in the industry.
Injective provides an interoperable smart contracts platform that is optimized for building decentralized finance applications. Interoperability is at the core of Injective, which is natively integrated with chains such as Ethereum, Cosmos and Solana. Developers can rapidly launch premier financial applications suited for mass adoption using Injective’s infrastructure and specialized DeFi primitives such as the world’s first fully on-chain order book.
Our team has decades of experience spearheading the largest financial institutions and tech organizations. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by leading firms such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.
About the role
We are looking for an accomplished Golang/Blockchain Engineer who is able to fit into an existing highly-skilled global dev team.
Responsibilities:
Build, maintain and test core components on our Cosmos-SDK protocol including our decentralized orderbook, trade execution coordinator, order matcher, and Layer-2 execution environment.
Write open-source Golang clients that allow users to interact directly with our protocol and smart contracts.
Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our exchange frontend as well as programmatic traders
Who you are:
Worked on at least two production Golang codebases that are reasonably large and performant
Familiar with Geth or Erigon
Strong knowledge of Go idioms and libraries
Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals such as data structures and API design
Strong understanding of blockchain
Ability to communicate technical concepts with other technical and non-technical team members
Nice to have
Experience with Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint
Experience with Ethereum/Solidity (bonus points if you've worked with Layer-2 before!)
Knowledge of financial instruments and markets
Why work with us?
Competitive salary and INJ token award
Unlimited PTO
Equipment
Home Office Stipend
Flexible working hours
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge blockchain technology in the finance industry
Collaborative team culture with opportunities for professional growth and development
Global team meet ups
As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
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