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Senior Blockchain Platform Engineer

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Level
Senior
Department
Engineering
Experience
Not listed
Posted
Aug 12, 2026

About the role

Transaction Infrastructure at Scale

  • Design and improve high-volume transaction broadcasting pipelines
  • Manage transaction lifecycle
  • Detect, retry, rebroadcast, and safely recover stuck transactions

Wallet & Lifecycle Management

  • Contribute to wallet infrastructure and automation systems
  • Implement safe parallel transaction handling
  • Improve monitoring, observability, and operational guardrails
  • Design systems with financial correctness and reconciliation and auditability in mind

Cross-Chain & DeFi Integrations

  • Build infrastructure supporting cross chain and multi step flows (fiat to on-chain and vice versa)
  • Handle non-atomic multi-step journeys across chains
  • Design 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 that interact with on-chain contracts

End-to-End Engineering Ownership

  • Participate in estimation, planning, and execution of projects, features, and integrations
  • Develop and maintain thoroughly tested, high-quality, and performant code
  • Collaborate closely with Product Managers to design scalable implementation strategies
  • Contribute to reliable, maintainable systems that evolve with product needs
  • Participate in incident response and post-mortems
  • Improve reliability, alerting, and system resilience
  • Continuously evolve infrastructure to support growing volume and complexity

About You

Must-Have

  • 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 1 Blockchain and failure recovery
  • You think in failure modes, not just happy paths

Strong Signals

  • You can explain a real production incident end-to-end
  • Experience with at least 1 wallet infrastructure (Eth, Bitcoin, Solana) or custody systems
  • Awareness of MEV, slippages, pricing impact and swap execution risks
  • Experience with high-throughput or financial systems

Bonus points

  • 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