DeFi Protocol Engineer (Injective Labs)

Injective

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About The Position

Injective Labs is seeking an accomplished DeFi Protocol Engineer with a strong background in financial systems to join its skilled global development team. The engineer will work with the protocol team to brainstorm, specify, implement, and test chain features for Injective DeFi modules, applying real-world trading and exchange expertise to their design. The role offers ownership of improvements to chain performance and scalability, including kvstore optimization, processing logic, and the order matching engine.

The position involves building and maintaining core components of a Cosmos-SDK protocol and developing on-chain financial primitives such as derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing, and risk logic. The engineer will own features end-to-end, contribute to blockchain research and development, write open-source Golang clients, and collaborate with internal teams, external partners, and open-source communities. The role is remote-friendly, offers flexible hours, and includes a competitive salary and INJ token award.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as a Blockchain Engineer.
• Strong prior experience in finance, ideally building trading systems, exchanges, or algorithmic trading or derivatives platforms at a bank, trading firm, or exchange.
• A track record of building large, complex, performant distributed systems in production.
• Experience working on at least two reasonably large and performant production Golang codebases.
• Strong knowledge of Go idioms, libraries, and parallel processing.
• Strong knowledge of blockchain, DeFi and DEX concepts, consensus mechanisms, and the CosmWasm contract platform.
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and API design.
• Self-driven approach and comfort owning problems end-to-end with minimal oversight.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical team members.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Cosmos-SDK or Tendermint.
• Deep knowledge of financial instruments and markets, including derivatives, credit, perpetuals, and options.
• Experience with low-latency or high-throughput trading infrastructure.
• Experience with cryptography libraries, including digital signatures and hash algorithms used by Ethereum and Cosmos.
• Experience with key-value databases, especially those used by Cosmos-SDK.
• Experience with Ethereum or Solidity.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and test core components on the Cosmos-SDK protocol, including the decentralized orderbook, trade execution coordinator, order matcher, and Layer-2 execution environment.
• Design and implement on-chain financial primitives, including derivatives, margining, liquidations, pricing, and risk logic, translating proven TradFi practices into protocol features.
• Develop and optimize core Injective blockchain components, including consensus, state management, financial infrastructure, and applications.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features, from gathering requirements and writing specifications through architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Write open-source Golang clients that allow users to interact directly with the protocol and smart contracts.
• Contribute to research and development of new blockchain features and technologies.
• Work with front-end developers, back-end developers, and quality assurance engineers to deliver blockchain solutions.
• Collaborate with external partners and open-source communities to enhance the blockchain ecosystem.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and INJ token award.
• Remote-friendly work environment with flexible hours.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Equipment.
• Home office stipend.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge blockchain technology in the finance industry.
• Collaborative team culture with opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Global team meetups.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed