Senior Backend Engineer, Protocol Developer

Summary

Join our Core Protocol team at Eigen Labs as a software development engineer to operate at the edges of innovation, invent new approaches based on raw research foundations, and take on one of blockchain's most unique problems.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g., physics or mathematics)
• 5+ years of professional software development experience w/ proven track record of delivering highly scalable products/features on distributed systems
• 2+ years of full life cycle development with Go, Rust, C++ or similar language
• REST and gRPC
• PostgreSQL, Spark and/or Athena
• Data pipelines/processing
• DevOps (AWS)
• Strong knowledge of the Ethereum protocol

Responsibilities

• Ramp up on protocol design knowledge, understand the edges of smart contracts and off-chain systems, and proactively drive/contribute to core off-chain infrastructure
• Collaborate with the team to reduce On-chain complexity as we migrate computation off-chain while keeping it stable, secure, and as trustless as possible
• Building clients that our end users can easily run
• Develop systems for Off-chain reliability ensuring data is properly managed through the computation lifecycle on the platform by verifying off-chain views are properly synced and can be materialized from on-chain data
• Ideate, design and develop new features
• Engage with developer communities as a source of knowledge for issues submitted
• Define best practices for our backend guild across Eigen Labs, working cross functionally to share resources and identify common components/services while delivering mission critical and highly scalable functionality

Benefits

• Employer-covered Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• 401k
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 12 weeks of fully paid maternity and paternity leave