Golang/Blockchain Engineer

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.

We 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. Please stay cautious and report any suspicious communication.