Description
About Babylon
Babylon is a blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. We are proudly backed by leading investors including Polychain, Hack VC, and Framework. The project’s mission is to unlock Bitcoin security for the decentralized world. Our fast-growing team consists of engineers, researchers, and seasoned business experts. Our team culture is open, inclusive, agile, and passionate, and we highly value everyone’s personal growth.
Responsibilities
You will be a senior software engineer contributing to the life cycle of the Babylon system's core components for interacting with the Bitcoin ledger, from design to maintenance. Some examples of core components are the Bitcoin Staking libraries, Babylon node, and the relayers between the Babylon blockchain and Bitcoin.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in CS, electrical engineering, or equivalent
3+ years of experience in blockchain layer-1 development
2+ years of experience working with popular Bitcoin libraries (btcd, lnd, bitcoinlib-js)
1+ years of experience in designing and implementing protocols on top of Bitcoin
Proficient in Golang and Typescript
Solid grasp of CI/CD practices and tools, ensuring smooth and reliable deployments.
Fluent in English, with strong communication skills for effective collaboration in a global team.
Nice to Haves
Contributions to open-source blockchain projects.
Experience with other blockchain ecosystems, preferably Cosmos.
Experience with BitVM.
Job Nature
You are an experienced crypto-native software engineer with a deep understanding of Bitcoin and its ecosystem, consensus, and security. You have a proven track record of developing libraries that interact with the state of art Bitcoin tooling. You are passionate and ambitious about blockchain, follow best practices in software development, and have high work standards. You are open, responsible, and willing to help others.
- Full-time or not: YES
- Remote or not: YES
Salary and Benefits
200K +
Work Location
Remote