Sr. Backend Engineer

Description

• Across purpose: To fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient.
• Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in cross-chain interoperability.
• Risk Labs is the foundation and core team behind UMA and Across protocols, driving decentralized finance and interoperability.

Requirements

• 4+ years full-time experience in Software Engineering at a software, financial services or related technology organization.
• 2+ years of experience with blockchain-based projects (hackathons or personal projects as well).
• Experience with databases, networking, and data pipelines.
• Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity, and comfort in being wrong.
• Deep interest in software; desire to understand the why and the how of everything you work on.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially written.

Responsibilities

• Build highly available backend systems, both serverless and persistent.
• Design systems that index complex onchain data for ease of use and speedy access.
• Design and develop large-scale data pipelines.
• Build bots and smart contracts to monitor smart contracts and send transactions.
• Write clean, secure, and scalable code and review peers’ code in a collaborative ecosystem.

Benefits

Required Skills