Chainlink Labs is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer (Backend) in United States

Summary

The job description is for multiple engineering roles at Chainlink's core teams: CCIP, Blockchain Integrations, and VRF & Capital Markets. These teams are responsible for building interoperability between blockchains, integrating upcoming blockchains into the platform, and bridging the gap between decentralized and traditional finance using Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of professional engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment
• Expert proficiency in one or more of our core languages: Golang, Typescript, Solidity, or Rust
• Excitement for blockchain, web3, and similar decentralized technologies
• Strong written and oral communication and organization skills in English
• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Comfort in a remote role as a part of a distributed team located across multiple time zones

Responsibilities

• Build capabilities to further scale the system to support thousands of tokens and enable message deliveries across hundreds of blockchains (CCIP)
• Integrate upcoming blockchains into the Chainlink platform, build relations with founding engineers while gaining expertise in each new innovative ecosystem (Blockchain Integrations)
• Build brand new solutions to help bridge the gap of decentralized and traditional finance by providing liquidity to the capital markets industry looking to tokenize real world assets (VRF & Capital Markets)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience owning the communication of project progress, dependencies, and risk mitigation directly with stakeholders and partners
• Experience in blockchain and other Web 3.0 technologies, as a web3 developer and/or as a backend service developer
• Experience contributing to the open source community
• Track record in mentoring and supporting junior developers