Senior Software Engineer
Defuse Labs develops NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain interactions in an automated world — connecting AI, services, and financial applications.
About Defuse Labs
At Defuse Labs we design intent-driven liquidity layers, where smart contracts breathe, AI transacts and chains sync in real-time With expertise in AI, cryptography, and decentralized finance, our team is redefining how intelligent agents interact across blockchain networks. Defuse Labs is pioneering NEAR Intents, a next-generation transaction framework designed to enable seamless, AI-driven financial interactions. By automating complex cross-chain operations, NEAR Intents empowers autonomous agents, smart contracts, and decentralized services to execute transactions efficiently and securely.
Skills
About the Role
You will act as a key technical point of contact for partners integrating Near Intents into their products and workflows, while also contributing internally to the development and improvement of the core product, including building new features, enhancing system stability, and supporting ongoing technical initiatives. You'll help developers understand the product, solve implementation challenges, improve time-to-integration, and provide valuable ecosystem feedback internally. This is an ideal role for you if you are technical, highly communicative, pragmatic, and enjoy working across engineering, product, and external stakeholders.
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills and strong command of English
- Mid-to-senior level technical expertise in software engineering
- Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js
- Proven technical experience working on blockchain-related products
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues independently and communicate solutions clearly
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment
Responsibilities
- Support ecosystem partners and strategic clients integrating Near Intents into their products
- Help design technical integration approaches and solve implementation challenges
- Troubleshoot issues across APIs, SDKs, transaction flows, and partner systems
- Reduce friction in onboarding and shorten partner integration timelines
- Identify recurring blockers and work with internal teams to improve product readiness
- Develop and improve the core product, including features and stability enhancements
- Explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Act as a primary technical point of contact for partners, developers, and ecosystem teams
- Work closely with product and engineering teams to prioritize integration improvements
- Provide insights based on partner conversations and adoption patterns
- Help shape developer experience and external technical positioning