# DeFi Protocol Engineer (Injective Labs)

About the role We are looking for an accomplished DeFi Protocol Engineer with a strong background in financial systems who can fit into an existing highly skilled global dev team. Your role is to work closely with the protocol team to brainstorm, write specs, implement, and test chain features for our Injective DeFi modules, bringing real-world trading and exchange expertise to how they are designed. You also have the freedom to detect and take ownership to improve chain performance and scalability via kvstore optimization, processing logic, and the order matching engine. If you're an autonomous engineer with strong financial experience who enjoys working with a high degree of ownership, and you're looking to make a real impact on one of the fastest-growing blockchains, this role is for you. 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 Design and implement financial primitives on-chain (derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing and risk logic), translating proven TradFi practices into robust protocol features Develop a

- **Id**: 4102548
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/injective-defi-protocol-engineer-injective-labs>
- **Role**: Web3
- **Role family**: Web3
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T20:52:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:05:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4395
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Home office, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DeFi, Cryptocurrencies, Web3 & dApps, Asset Tokenization

## Company

- **Id**: 1119
- **Name**: Injective
- **Domain**: injective.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/injective>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.286
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 87
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Cosmos** — Optional: no
- **CosmWasm** — Optional: no
- **DeFi** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Injective** — Optional: no
- **Layer 2** — Optional: no
- **Smart Contracts** — Optional: no
- **Ethereum** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes
- **Solidity** — Optional: yes
- **Tendermint** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **New York** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:01:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 87
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T09:51:29Z

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