Blockchain lead

• Proficient in Solidity programming language
• Experience with wallet integrations
• Experience with ethers.js/web3.js
• Experience with Nodejs
• Experience with upgradable contracts, dynamic contracts, and factory contracts
• Design and develop smart contracts and decentralized applications on Ethereum, Polygon and Tron
• Excellent knowledge of various token standards like ERC20, ERC721 and ERC1155
• Write end-to-end unit tests for all smart contracts

**Role Overview:** We are seeking a skilled Web3 blockchain developer with strong experience in Ethereum and decentralized finance (DeFi). The ideal candidate should have expertise in smart contract development, ERC20 tokens, security best practices, and experience integrating with blockchain payment gateways or APIs related to stablecoins.

**Key Responsibilities:**

* Develop and deploy ERC20 smart contracts, including token minting, redemption, and transfer functionalities on Ethereum.

* Design, review, and optimize smart contracts related to crypto lending, escrow, collateral, and repayments.

* Integrate with Circle’s platform for USDC operations, understanding minting and redeeming processes via its APIs.

* Assess stability mechanisms of USDC, ensuring secure handling of minting, redemption workflows, and transactions.

* Collaborate with backend systems (Node.js / Typescript) to facilitate blockchain interactions, manage transactions, and implement error recovery.

* Implement blockchain security best practices, including transaction signing, API key management, and event validation.

* Explore interoperability between Ethereum and other blockchain networks as needed, considering costs and operational efficiency.

* Work closely with frontend and backend teams to embed blockchain transaction logic, wallet management, and transaction tracking.

* Document smart contract code, API workflows, and integration processes to support compliance and audits.

* Ensure platform adherence to relevant regulatory standards for crypto operations.

* Requirements:

* Proven experience in Ethereum smart contract development (Solidity), with a focus on ERC20 standards.

* Experience with DeFi protocols, escrow, lending, or collateral management smart contracts.

* Familiarity with Circle’s platform APIs, especially for USDC minting and redemption workflows, is a strong advantage.

* Hands-on experience with blockchain libraries such as web3.js, ethers.js, or similar.

* Understanding of blockchain transaction costs, network throughput, and interoperability considerations.

* Strong knowledge of smart contract security, auditing, and safe transaction handling.

* Experience working with backend environments like Node.js or Typescript.

* Basic familiarity with Circle’s wallet APIs, webhook integrations, and transaction validation best practices.

* Excellent coding, debugging, and documentation skills.

* Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment.

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**Preferred Skills:**

* Experience across multiple blockchain ecosystems (e.g., Ethereum, Polygon, Solana).

* Prior exposure to Circle’s API systems and USDC management workflows.

* Strong security awareness around wallet management, API key handling, and transaction validation.

* Knowledge of DeFi security audits, formal verification, or related security frameworks.

* Contributions to open-source blockchain projects or experience in blockchain community engagement.

We are a research and product development studio focusing on building applications powered by blockchain and AI technology.

We are looking for a DeFi Software Engineer with a deep understanding of Ethereum and tons of curiosity!

What are we building: We are building a peer-to-pool-based derivatives trading platform (perps and options) with novel mechanics where liquidity providers can choose whether they want to be actively or passively involved in making the market.

Responsibilities

1. Designing, building, and testing smart contracts and related infrastructure

2. Researching new DeFi protocols and their connectors and building on them

3. Building real-time monitoring tools and working with our team on latency-sensitive operations

4. Staying up to date on any developments in Defi relevant to the project

Qualifications

1. Must have extensive knowledge of Solidity, smart contract development (web3js or eth-brownie), testing and deploying a functioning smart contract on an EVM chain

2. Knowledge of Python (knowledge of Golang/Rust programming is pleasant to have).

3. Must be comfortable working with either eth-brownie

4. Comfortable working in a dynamic, research-oriented team with several ongoing concurrent projects

5. You look forward to working with an interdisciplinary team that longs to find solutions together.

6. Deep technical and practical understanding of DeFi protocols*

7. *Knowledge of DeFi isn't a must but it is a big plus! The number of years of experience does not matter as long as you have built complex projects from scratch, have a burning desire to learn more, constantly improve yourself, and solve tricky problems daily.

We're a small team so you can assure yourself that whatever you contribute - in terms of engineering, or otherwise - is always heard and discussed.

Benefits

1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

2. Equity in the protocol

3. A unique open research environment, where everybody contributes and sees the full spectrum of our work, from inception to production

4. The chance to shape our firm's legacy and exchange knowledge with the team on every part of what we do. The role is remote. Please share GitHub profiles and details of previous projects worked on (both commercial and personal)

Technical Experience 

• Solid understanding of and experience in BlockChain Development preferred 
• 2+ years of Blockchain application development experience on platforms such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, BigchainDb, Multi-Chain.  
• Experience in solution building on Blockchain technology.  
• Experience on development tools such as Geth, Hyperledger Fabric/Sawtooth, Composer, Solidity Remix Functional  
• Basic understanding of Web applications architecture and protocols. 
• Any additional expertise with Python, containerization (Docker) and additional Cloud exposure also a huge plus
• Any previous integration expertise, Strong in Agile, Banking or Financial Service development expertise, as well as software development in a large Enterprise environment, also required Security Architecture / Cryptography
• Front-end development experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ES6/TypeScript Angular, Node.js, ReactJS . 

Requirements

Responsibilities

Hiring Process

We are looking for a Blockchain Developer who has around 2-3 years of experience, and has past experience with working on blockchain-based systems and scenarios. The ideal candidate would be someone who understands the concepts of Blockchain technology and having working experience on Rust and Solana.

• Desire to work in a startup environment, fun@work culture and able to self-manage.

• In Depth understanding of at-least two blockchain network like Rust, Substrate, Polkadot Solana, Hedera Hashgraph, Tezos, BlockApps, Algorand, Corda, Lambda, Cargo etc

• Familiarity with basic cryptography to understand the essentials of blockchain systems.

• Hands on in Rust

• Designing and writing well-structured APIs in Node.js and MongoDb to connect to Blockchain infrastructure

• Staying up to date with new developments and news in integrated chains.

• Past experience with Wallets or Crypto Exchanges would be a major plus.

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

• Experience working in an agile development process.

• Documenting architecture and guidelines.

• Be proficient in using version control and continuous integration, with tools such as Gitlab, Git and Jenkins.

• Write clear, maintainable and testable code that you are proud of.

• Attend training and education where necessary to up-skill themselves.

• Experience in writing smart contracts for large-scale production blockchain applications.

• Cross-team contribution whenever required.

• Familiarity with basic cryptography.

• Should have a deep understanding of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space and smart contract systems, specifically having a deep understanding of Rust.

We are a Quantitative Trading firm building proprietary trading products and infrastructure for crypto markets (both DeFi and CeFi). We are focusing heavily on building up our DeFi capabilities and are looking for a hungry DeFi native engineer to help us conceptualize and build our DeFi strategies and infrastructure.

We are a high-output research team of 5 from a variety of backgrounds, spanning from Machine Learning and System Engineering, all the way to fintech and business.

We build products for both internal and external use to uncover alpha opportunities in different areas of crypto markets, including trading both on centralized and decentralized exchanges (DeFi) and building systems to streamline order execution, gather and digest complex timeseries data streams.

We are looking for a DeFi Software Engineer who has a deep understanding of blockchain and is curious about algorithmic trading. You should be excited about making sense of large quantities of data, and decision modelling on time series, real-time data.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and testing smart contracts and related infrastructure
• Researching new DeFi protocols and its connectors and building on them
• Building real-time monitoring tools and working with our team on latency-sensitive operations
• Ethereum Node Infrastructure setup and maintenance
• Work with the team on devising new trading strategies and uncovering opportunities

Qualifications

• Deep technical and practical understanding of DeFi protocols and DevOps practices for interfacing with them (both Ethereum and any other relevant one) - Must have extensive knowledge of Solidity, smart contract development (web3js or ethersjs) and testing.
• Knowledge of Javascript (knowledge of Golang/Python programming is nice to have).
• Must be comfortable working with either hardhat or truffle.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, research-oriented team with several ongoing concurrent projects
• You look forward to working with an interdisciplinary team that longs to find solutions together.
• Knowledge of trading isn't required but interest in the field is paramount. If you are a self-taught wiz who has tried its hands at DeFi trading and AMM, even better!

The number of years of experience does not matter as long as you have built complex projects from scratch, a burning desire to learn more, constantly improve yourself and solving tricky problems on a daily basis. We're a small team so you can assure yourself that whatever you contribute - in terms of an engineer, or otherwise - is always heard and discussed.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• A young startup work environment, where your initiatives and ideas count and are rewarded
• A unique open research environment, where everybody contributes and sees the full spectrum of our work, from inception to production
• The chance to shape our firm's legacy and exchange knowledge with the team on every part of what we do.

The role location is preferably Hyderabad with to be able to brainstorm in person with the R&D team, but remote in India is also possible.
Please share github profiles and details of previous projects worked on (both commercial and personal).