Core 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

As a Core Blockchain Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining the Injective blockchain.

This is a fully remote role based in either EMEA, APAC , NA OR LATAM

Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain (consensus, state management, financial infrastructure and applications)
• 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:

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Core Blockchain Engineer (not a smart contract engineer)
• Solid understanding of blockchain concepts, cryptography, and consensus mechanisms.
• Proficiency in Go and Rust or Python.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with the Cosmos-SDK and decentralized finance (DeFi) is a plus.

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.