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DeFi Protocol Engineer
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About this role
Role overview
Design and build protocol features for a decentralized finance platform, bringing financial systems expertise to blockchain infrastructure. The work spans trading components, on-chain financial logic, performance improvements, and open-source tools, with ownership from early specification through implementation and release.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and test protocol components such as an on-chain order book, trade execution coordination, order matching, and a Layer 2 execution environment. - Develop on-chain financial features for derivatives, margin, liquidations, pricing, and risk management. - Improve blockchain performance and scalability across consensus, state management, storage, and transaction processing. - Own features end to end, from gathering requirements and designing architecture to testing and deployment. - Develop open-source Go clients and contribute to research, working with product teams and external contributors.
Requirements
- At least three years of blockchain engineering experience and a record of delivering complex distributed systems in production. - Strong financial systems experience, ideally with trading, exchanges, algorithmic trading, or derivatives platforms. - Production experience with at least two substantial Go codebases; familiarity with Go libraries, idioms, and concurrent processing. - Knowledge of blockchain, DeFi, decentralized exchanges, consensus, and smart contract platforms. - Solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures and API design. - Ability to work independently, own problems through delivery, and communicate with technical and non-technical colleagues.
Nice to have
- Experience with Cosmos SDK or Tendermint, financial markets and instruments, or low-latency and high-throughput trading systems. - Familiarity with cryptographic libraries, key-value databases, Ethereum, or Solidity.
Benefits and work setup
Remote-friendly work with flexible hours, paid time off, equipment, and a home office stipend. Compensation includes salary and a token award; team meetups and professional development opportunities are also offered.