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We are the core contributors to Injective, one of the fastest growing blockchains in the industry.\nInjective 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.\nOur 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.\nAbout the role\nWe 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.\nIf 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.\nResponsibilities:\nBuild, maintain, and test core components on our Cosmos-SDK protocol, including our decentralized orderbook, trade execution coordinator, order matcher, and Layer-2 execution environment\n\nDesign and implement financial primitives on-chain (derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing and risk logic), translating proven TradFi practices into robust protocol features\n\nDevelop and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain (consensus, state management, financial infrastructure and applications)\n\nTake end-to-end ownership of features, from requirement gathering and specs through architecture, implementation, testing and deployment\n\nWrite open-source Golang clients that allow users to interact directly with our protocol and smart contracts\n\nContribute to the research and development of new blockchain features and technologies\n\nWork closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, back-end developers, and quality assurance engineers, to deliver comprehensive blockchain solutions\n\nCollaborate with external partners and open-source communities to enhance our blockchain ecosystem\n\nWho you are:\nMinimum of 3 years’ experience as a Blockchain Engineer\n\nStrong prior experience in finance, ideally building trading systems, exchanges, or algo trading/derivatives platforms at a bank, trading firm, or exchange\n\nTrack record of building large, complex, and performant distributed systems in production\n\nWorked on at least two production Golang codebases that are reasonably large and performant\n\nStrong knowledge of Go idioms, libraries, and parallel processing\n\nStrong knowledge of blockchain, DeFi & DEX concepts, consensus mechanisms, CosmWasm contract platform\n\nStrong knowledge of CS fundamentals such as data structures and API design\n\nSelf-driven and comfortable owning problems end-to-end with minimal oversight\n\nAbility to communicate technical concepts with other technical and non-technical team members\n\nNice to haves:\nExperience with Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint\n\nDeep knowledge of financial instruments and markets (derivatives, credit, perpetuals, options)\n\nExperience with low-latency or high-throughput trading infrastructure\n\nExperience with cryptography libraries, including digital signatures and hash algorithms used by Ethereum and Cosmos\n\nExperience with key-value databases, especially ones used by cosmos-sdk\n\nExperience with Ethereum/Solidity\n\nWhy work with us?\nCompetitive salary and INJ token award\n\nRemote-friendly work environment with flexible hours\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nEquipment\n\nHome Office Stipend\n\nOpportunity to work on cutting-edge blockchain technology in the finance industry\n\nCollaborative team culture with opportunities for professional growth and development\n\nGlobal team meetups\n\nAs 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.\nWe will only contact candidates using emails from the @ injectivelabs.org domain. If you are approached by any other account or domain regarding this position, it was not sent by us. 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