Senior Software Engineer, Banking & Capital Markets

About the Company 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.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building a new API for companies to connect to our Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).
• Learn more about the underlying technology in the blockchain ecosystem (Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, and Ethereum).
• Learn how to build our core products with Smart Contracts using Solidity.
• Thinking creatively about attack vectors, possible failures, and disaster scenarios, modeling them in reproducible test environments, and developing fixes.
• Modeling and developing recovery behaviors within our core node software.
• Managing the architectural vision for new subsystems in the core Chainlink node.
• Implementing resilient distributed systems to achieve high reliability in a variety of blockchain environments.

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in Golang or any other strongly-typed programming language preferred.
• B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering, or related technical field.
• Experience developing web applications/services and backend APIs.
• Knowledge of systems design concepts.
• Interest in blockchain and other Web 3.0 technologies.
• Comfort and/or experience working as a remote employee as a part of a distributed team.
• Ability to write and communicate effectively.