Senior Smart Contract Engineer, Solidity

About Us

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others.

Chainlink Labs is a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts, and has ranked among Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology, Fortune's Best Medium Workplace, and the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Learn more at chain.link or chainlinklabs.com.

About The Role

As a Senior Smart Contract Engineer at Chainlink Labs, you will develop highly impactful smart contracts that further secure Chainlink CCIP networks, drive on-chain projects end to end and implement new on-chain features. You will work closely with all functions at Chainlink, from engineering, operations, finance, marketing, and more to ensure the team releases easy to use and easy to manage smart contract driven products. Your core team will be composed of smart contract and software engineers and you will report to the engineering lead on the team.

Your Impact

• Owning large components of the smart contract architecture that secures Chainlink CCIP
• Actively participate in leveling up yourself and your peers in Solidity and smart contract development
• Work closely with fellow engineers to build the end to end experience for your products
• Work closely with operations to ensure smooth deployment and management of your dApps
• Partner with the research team to build products that are practical and easy to use
• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to ensure you build products that deliver positive user experience and meet business constraints
  
  

Requirements

• At least 5-8+ years of professional engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment
• At least 3+ years of smart contract development experience
• Deployed multiple smart contracts to Ethereum Mainnet or an EVM compatible chain that secured substantial user funds
• Deep understanding of Solidity and the EVM
• Active participant in the blockchain ecosystem as a user
• Experience owning multi month long projects, including communication of progress, dependencies, and risk mitigation directly with stakeholders and partners
• Computer science fundamentals and systems design
• Experience building dApps end to end
  
  

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