Paradigm is hiring a

Senior / Principal Blockchain Engineer (Stealth DeFi Project)

As a core member of the backend engineering team, you will build and maintain major features, through inception, design, implementation, and launch, working closely with product and engineering disciplines across the company. The perfect candidate has an in-depth understanding of distributed systems, blockchain, and hands-on experience architecting and developing existing blockchain smart contract platforms. You will spend the majority of your time on cross-functional self-contained feature teams focused on delivering value to the customer, while other projects will be more internally focused on integrations, scalability, and performance.

• Participate in the design and implementation of a decentralized protocol for crypto derivatives trading. This includes developing, testing, and deploying the backend and smart contracts needed to do so.
• Design and develop any APIs and/or SDKs required to support trade execution services.
• Own monitoring, alarming, analytics, and reporting on all services you build, ensuring high performance and responsiveness
• Communicate requirements effectively within and across teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally building products from ideation to launch with a strong engineering team
• Demonstrable, in-depth knowledge and experience with at least one modern language such as Javascript, Python, Golang, Java, C++
• Proficient in basic cryptography concepts
• Hands-on experience creating upgradeable smart contracts and building on blockchain, working with Solidity
• Comfortable working cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes
• B.S. in Computer Science or a related field (M.S. a plus)

Nice to have

• Deep knowledge of the cryptocurrency ecosystem (BTC, ETH, etc.) and underlying technologies (blockchain, PoW, PoS, etc.)
• Interest and understanding of L1/L2 blockchain technology and ZK-Rollups

Salary Range: $166,700 - $315,000 USD