Golang Backend Engineer - Americas time zone

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified

Injective Labs is a trailblazing company in Web3 enabled finance, focused on building the Injective blockchain – one of the fastest-growing blockchains in the industry. Injective provides an interoperable smart contracts platform optimized for decentralized finance applications, natively integrated with chains like Ethereum, Cosmos, and Solana. They offer developers infrastructure and DeFi primitives for rapid launch of mass-adoption financial applications. The company is incubated by Binance and backed by prominent firms like Jump Crypto, Pantera, and Mark Cuban.

Requirements

• Experience: Worked on at least two production Golang codebases that are reasonably large and performant.
• Databases: Experience with non-relational databases at a reasonable scale.
• APIs: Worked and maintained large API sets, maintaining good practices.
• Go Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Go idioms and libraries.
• CS Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals, including data structures and API design.
• Communication: Ability to communicate technical concepts with other technical and non-technical team members.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and test Go indexing services providing access to blockchain data.
• Improve event-driven pipelines for collecting, transforming, and storing blockchain data.
• Develop and maintain high-performance JSON & gRPC APIs to power exchange products and programmatic traders.
• Monitor and instrumentalize the platform to ensure scalability and availability of services.
• Interact with different teams to ideate, develop, and release new features.

Nice to Have

• Experience with MongoDB
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Knowledge of blockchain technology
• Knowledge of financial instruments and markets