DeFi Protocol Engineer (Injective Labs)

Role overview

Build and improve the on-chain systems that support decentralized trading and financial products. You will take features from requirements and design through implementation, testing, and release, applying experience with financial systems to protocol components such as order matching, execution, and risk logic. The role also includes performance work and collaboration with product-adjacent engineering teams and external contributors.

Responsibilities - Build, maintain, and test protocol components for order books, trade execution, order matching, and a Layer 2 execution environment. - Design on-chain financial functions such as derivatives, margin, liquidations, pricing, and risk controls. - Improve consensus, state management, and other core systems for performance and scalability. - Own features end to end, from gathering requirements and writing specifications to architecture, testing, and deployment. - Develop open-source Go clients for interacting with the protocol and its contracts. - Coordinate with engineering and quality teams, and contribute to protocol research and the wider open-source ecosystem.

Requirements - At least 3 years of blockchain engineering experience. - Substantial finance experience, ideally building trading, exchange, algorithmic trading, or derivatives systems. - A record of delivering large, performant distributed systems in production. - Experience with at least two sizable production Go codebases and strong command of Go idioms, libraries, and parallel processing. - Knowledge of blockchain, DeFi, decentralized exchanges, consensus, and the CosmWasm contract platform. - Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures and API design, plus the ability to own work independently and communicate across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to have - Cosmos SDK or Tendermint experience; knowledge of derivatives, credit, perpetuals, or options. - Work on low-latency or high-throughput trading infrastructure. - Familiarity with cryptography libraries, key-value databases used in Cosmos-based systems, or Ethereum and Solidity.

Benefits and work setup Remote-friendly work with flexible hours, paid time off without a stated annual limit, equipment, a home-office stipend, and a token award alongside salary. The listing also mentions professional growth opportunities and global team meetups.