As a staff software engineer on the Data Feeds team, you will build on-chain data products that ensure the integrity of a significant amount of decentralized finance ( https://chain.link/data-feeds ).
You will work closely with all functions at Chainlink, from engineering, product, go-to-market, operations, finance, and more to ensure the team releases highly reliable and performant products across hundreds of blockchains and users. You will proactively work alongside other engineering and product teams to align the work of the team with the broader technology landscape. You will work alongside 6-8 other engineers and report the engineering manager on the team.
Your Impact
- Design and own the end to end delivery new and existing data products that powers a significant amount of defi
- Develop the technology landscape with other engineering teams and align how the team’s portfolio fits in
- Work closely with fellow engineers to build the end to end experience for your products, including but not limited to data services, smart contracts, monitoring, and tooling
- Partner with product, researchers, and broader engineering to plan ahead and ensure continuity of work over 18-24 months
- Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to ensure you build products that delivery positive user experience and meets business constraints
Requirements
- Successful experience designing, building and scaling a production service
- Experience owning multi quarter projects, including planning, work breakdown, communication of progress, dependencies and risk mitigation
- Experience working directly with product, stakeholders, and non-technical partners
- Focused on building great products and willing to learn a range of technologies to do so
- Experience partnering with product to plan and successfully deliver against a year+ long roadmap
- Computer science fundamentals and systems design
Desired Qualifications
- At least 5+ years of professional engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment
- Experience in Solidity, TypeScript, SQL, Golang
- Experience developing smart contracts that secured meaningful value on-chain
- Experience working with a team located across multiple time zones
- Experience working in or with market data
- Active participant in the blockchain ecosystem as a user
Our Principles
At Chainlink Labs, we’re committed to the key operating principles of ownership, focus, and open dialogue. We practice complete ownership, where everyone goes the extra mile to own outcomes into success. We understand that unflinching focus is a superpower and is how we channel our activity into technological achievements for the benefit of our entire ecosystem. We embrace open dialogue and critical feedback to arrive at an accurate and truthful picture of reality that promotes both personal and organizational growth.
About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink is the industry standard oracle network for connecting smart contracts to the real world. With Chainlink, developers can build hybrid smart contracts that combine on-chain code with an extensive collection of secure off-chain services powered by Decentralized Oracle Networks. Managed by a global, decentralized community of hundreds of thousands of people, Chainlink is introducing a fairer model for contracts. Its network currently secures billions of dollars in value for smart contracts across the decentralized finance (DeFi), insurance, and gaming ecosystems, among others. The full vision of the Chainlink Network can be found in the Chainlink 2.0 whitepaper. Chainlink is trusted by hundreds of organizations—from global enterprises to projects at the forefront of the blockchain economy—to deliver definitive truth via secure, reliable data.
