Staff Software Engineer: Dev Infra & Blockchain

Echoyield; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Food

Vacation

Equity ownership

Gym reimbursements

Team events

Job summary

Echoyield is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Developer Infrastructure in Melbourne. You will design, build, and scale core blockchain tooling and backend systems, guiding architecture, performance, and engineering practices across teams.

Join a high-visibility role shaping developer experience, with collaboration across product, research, and engineering to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure for decentralized finance apps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a technical writer on complex products/technical projects (preferably in blockchain space)
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills in English
• Experience owning the end-to-end documentation creation and management process
• Experience and proven ability in self-managing a high volume of tasks, priorities, and set yourself high standard of accuracy, proficiency and precision
• Experience in collaborating with a wide range of people, teams and community members
• Client-focused, partnering approach with both our business leaders and engineers to deliver a first-class experience for all stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale decentralized matching engine, risk system, and limit order book for blockchain protocol using CosmosSDK along with its surrounding backend systems
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in navigating tradeoffs (architecture, timeline, etc.)
• Ensure best practices within the engineering team through guidance on architecture, code reviews, performance, testing, efficiency, and other engineering excellence improvements

Job description

Echoyield is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Developer Infrastructure in Melbourne. You will design, build, and scale core blockchain tooling and backend systems, guiding architecture, performance, and engineering practices across teams.

Join a high-visibility role shaping developer experience, with collaboration across product, research, and engineering to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure for decentralized finance apps.