Senior Software Engineer, Smart Value Recapture

Chainlink Labs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Software Engineer, where you'll collaborate with a talented team to build decentralized infrastructure that revolutionizes smart contracts. In this role, you will take ownership of projects, design scalable systems, and lead integrations with various DeFi protocols. Your expertise in programming languages like Golang and your experience with cloud-based big data systems will be crucial as you contribute to powerful tooling that enhances the blockchain ecosystem. Embrace the opportunity to shape the future of technology in a flexible, remote work environment that values innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of engineering experience in a collaborative environment.
• Strong experience in Golang, C++, TypeScript, Java, or Python.
• Experience in building distributed systems and cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, secure, and reliable software for smart contracts.
• Lead integrations with DeFi protocols and build analytical tooling.
• Enhance engineering practices and increase team velocity.

Skills

Golang

C++

TypeScript

Java

Python

Cloud-based big data systems

Distributed systems

Systems design

Blockchain technologies

Tools

Terraform

Kafka

Postgres

AWS

Job description

About Us

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Chainlink Labs, you’ll collaborate with an experienced technical team of other engineers, distributed systems computing experts, researchers, and security experts, who are all committed to building world-changing decentralized infrastructure. You’ll develop and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable software that will change the way smart contracts function at a fundamental level. You will be given a high level of autonomy/ownership over your projects, the opportunity to expand your scope of knowledge, and the chance to help build the decentralized infrastructure of the future.

Your Impact

• Work to equitably distribute value from liquidations back to protocols, customers and node operators.
• Work within the Chainlink Runtime Environment to build durable, distributed systems.
• You will interact with DeFi Protocols across different chains to integrate SVR.
• Building powerful tooling to enable deep analytical insights into the Chainlink & wider blockchain ecosystem.
• Lead application-specific integrations with Chainlink.
• Building powerful tooling to aid in streamlining the integration of new data partners.
• Actively lead in leveling the team’s engineering bar, increasing the velocity of the team and the reliability of the product.

Requirements

• 6-8+ years of professional engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment.
• Strong experience in one of the following: Golang, C++, TypeScript, Java, or Python.
• Professional experience working on a cloud-based big data system (AWS, GCP).
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals and systems design concepts.
• Successful experience designing, building and scaling a production service.
• Experience owning multi-month long projects, including communication of progress, dependencies, and risk mitigation directly with stakeholders and partners.
• Experience or interest in blockchain and other Web 3.0 technologies.
• Experience in building distributed systems.

Desired Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience coding in Golang.
• Professional experience with financial applications or financial data.
• Experience working with a team located across multiple time zones.

Our Stack

• Golang, Terraform, Kafka, Postgres, AWS.

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