Golang Backend Engineer - Americas time zone

About Injective Labs

Injective Labs is trailblazing a new dawn for Web3 enabled finance. We are the core contributors to Injective, one of the fastest growing blockchains in the industry. Injective provides an interoperable smart contracts platform that is optimized for building decentralized finance applications. Interoperability is at the core of Injective, which is natively integrated with chains such as Ethereum, Cosmos and Solana. Developers can rapidly launch premier financial applications suited for mass adoption using Injective’s infrastructure and specialized DeFi primitives such as the world’s first fully on-chain order book.Our team has decades of experience spearheading the largest financial institutions and tech organizations. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by leading firms such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.

About the role:

We are looking for an accomplished Golang developer who is able to fit into an existing highly-skilled global dev team.

Responsibilities:

Build, maintain and test the Go indexing services that provide access to all the information stored in the blockchain

Improve the event-driven pipelines that collect, transform and store the data emitted by the blockchain

Develop and maintain the high-performance JSON & gRPC APIs to power our exchange products as well as programmatic traders.

Monitor and instrumentalize the platform to ensure the scalability and availability of all the services

Interact with different teams in the company to ideate, develop and release new features

Who you are:

Worked on at least two production Golang codebases that are reasonably large and performant

Worked with non-relational databases at a reasonable scale

Worked and maintained large APIs sets, maintaining good practices

Strong knowledge of Go idioms and libraries

Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals such as data structures and API design

Ability to communicate technical concepts with other technical and non-technical team members

Nice to have

Experience with MongoDB

Experience with kubernetes

Knowledge of blockchain

Knowledge of financial instruments and markets