DeFi Protocol Engineer

Location: New York or Remote (US); South America; Europe Workplace: Remote 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 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 and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain (consensus, state management, financial infrastructure and applications) - Take end-to-end ownership of features, from requirement gathering and specs through architecture, implementation, testing and deployment - Write open-source Golang clients that allow users to interact directly with our protocol and smart contracts - Contribute to the research and development of new blockchain features and technologies - Work closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, back-end developers, and quality assurance engineers, to deliver comprehensive blockchain solutions - Collaborate with external partners and open-source communities to enhance our blockchain ecosystem WHO YOU ARE: - 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 NICE TO HAVES: - 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 WHY WORK WITH US? - 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 As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. 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