DeFi Protocol Engineer
Injective Foundation is the organization identified in Injective’s official legal and footer materials for the Injective finance-focused layer-one blockchain.
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About Injective Foundation
The Foundation’s canonical site presents Injective as blockchain infrastructure for finance, with financial primitives for stablecoins, real-world assets, payments, and programmable derivatives. Its developer documentation supports building on and operating the active Injective network.
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About the Role
You will work closely with the protocol team to brainstorm, write specs, implement and test chain features for Injective's DeFi modules, bringing real-world trading and exchange expertise to their design. You will also take ownership of improving chain performance and scalability through kvstore optimization, processing logic and the order matching engine.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years' experience as a Blockchain Engineer
- Strong prior experience in finance, ideally building trading systems, exchanges or derivatives platforms
- Track record of building large, complex, performant distributed systems in production
- Worked on at least two large, performant production Golang codebases
- Strong knowledge of Go idioms, libraries and parallel processing
- Strong knowledge of blockchain, DeFi & DEX concepts, consensus mechanisms, CosmWasm
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals such as data structures and API design
- Self-driven and comfortable owning problems end-to-end
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical team members
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain and test core components on the Cosmos-SDK protocol, including the decentralized orderbook, trade execution coordinator, order matcher and Layer-2 execution environment
- Design and implement on-chain financial primitives (derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing and risk logic)
- Develop and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain (consensus, state management, financial infrastructure and applications)
- Take end-to-end ownership of features from requirements and specs through architecture, implementation, testing and deployment
- Write open-source Golang clients for interacting with the protocol and smart contracts
- Contribute to research and development of new blockchain features and technologies
- Work with cross-functional teams including front-end, back-end and QA engineers
- Collaborate with external partners and open-source communities
Benefits
- INJ token award
- Remote-friendly work environment with flexible hours
- Unlimited PTO
- Equipment
- Home office stipend
- Global team meetups
