Injective Labs
Web3 Finance
ProtocolEngineer
Neural analysis suggests this role is
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“Protocol Engineer at Injective Labs. Skills: Protocol Engineering, Blockchain Development, Golang Development, DeFi Primitives. Brainstorm chain features. Write specs for chain features”
Industry & Context.
Detect performance issues; Take ownership of improvements
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3 years’ experience Blockchain Engineer, Prior experience trading, Worked on 2+ production Golang codebases, Knowledge of Go idioms, Knowledge of blockchain concepts, Knowledge of DeFi concepts, Knowledge of DEX concepts, Knowledge of consensus mechanisms, Knowledge of CosmWasm contract platform, Knowledge of CS fundamentals, Knowledge of data structures, Knowledge of API design
Nice to Have
Experience with Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint, Experience with cryptography libraries, Experience with key-value databases, Experience with Ethereum/Solidity, Layer-2 experience
What You'll Do.
Brainstorm chain features
Write specs for chain features
Implement chain features
Improve chain performance
Improve chain scalability
Optimize processing logic
Optimize order matching engine
Build core components
Maintain core components
Develop core components
Optimize core components
Contribute to research
Contribute to development
Work with cross-functional teams
Collaborate with external partners
Collaborate with communities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Front-end developers; Back-end developers; Quality assurance engineers; External partners; Open-source communities
Communication Scope
Communicate technical concepts
Full Job Description
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 Protocol Engineer who is able to 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. You also have the freedom to detect and take ownership to improve chain performance and scalability via kvstore optimization, processing logic and order matching engine 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 - Develop and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain (consensus, state management, financial infrastructure and applications) - 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 co
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