Senior Blockchain Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design and improve high-volume transaction broadcasting pipelines
  • Manage transaction lifecycle, including detecting, retrying, rebroadcasting, and safely recovering stuck transactions
  • Contribute to wallet infrastructure and automation systems with safe parallel transaction handling
  • Improve monitoring, observability, and operational guardrails
  • Design systems with financial correctness, reconciliation, and auditability
  • Build infrastructure supporting cross-chain and multi-step flows (fiat to on-chain and vice versa)
  • Handle non-atomic multi-step journeys across chains with state machines and recovery strategies for partial failure scenarios
  • Support routing mechanics and swap execution considerations such as price impact, liquidity changes, including MEV awareness
  • Build reliable off-chain services interacting with on-chain contracts
  • Participate in estimation, planning, and execution of projects, features, and integrations
  • Develop and maintain thoroughly tested, high-quality, and performant code
  • Collaborate with Product Managers to design scalable implementation strategies
  • Contribute to reliable, maintainable systems evolving with product needs
  • Participate in incident response and post-mortems
  • Improve system reliability, alerting, and resilience
  • Continuously evolve infrastructure to support growing volume and complexity

Requirements

  • Strong backend/platform engineering fundamentals
  • Experience operating production systems with real uptime requirements
  • Hands-on experience interacting with live blockchain networks in production
  • Clear understanding of transaction lifecycle in at least one blockchain and failure recovery
  • Ability to think in failure modes, not just happy paths

Nice to Haves

  • Ability to explain a real production incident end-to-end
  • Experience with at least one wallet infrastructure (Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana) or custody systems
  • Awareness of MEV, slippages, pricing impact, and swap execution risks
  • Experience with high-throughput or financial systems
  • Experience working at exchanges, custody providers, wallet infrastructure teams, or high-volume DeFi platforms
  • Familiarity with UTXO-based chains (e.g., Bitcoin), including coin selection and fee bumping strategies (RBF / CPFP)
  • Experience designing cross-chain or multi-step transaction orchestration systems
  • Familiarity with blockchain indexing or event ingestion pipelines
  • Understanding of common token standards (ERC-20, SPL) and interacting with smart contracts from backend services
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