Senior Software Engineer, Data Feeds

About Us 

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

About the Role

As an engineer on the Data Feeds team, you'll develop on-chain data products that uphold the integrity of a substantial portion of decentralized finance, positioning Chainlink as the largest oracle provider in the space (see Chainlink Data Feeds). Your work will span a range of impactful areas, from enhancing our telemetry and alerting systems to delivering Proof of Reserve solutions for leading web3 and traditional finance customers. You’ll play a critical role in evolving the Data Feeds product—a cornerstone of DeFi with extensive on-chain components—by collaborating closely across engineering, product, go-to-market, operations, finance, and more, ensuring we deliver highly reliable and high-performance products across hundreds of blockchains and thousands of users.

Your Impact:

• Design and own the end to end delivery new and existing data products that powers a significant amount of Defi

• 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 6-12 months

• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to ensure you build products that deliver positive user experience and meets business constraints

Requirements:

• Successful experience designing, building and scaling a production service

• Experience owning multi month 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 Golang or any other strongly-typed programming language

• 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

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