Senior Software Engineer, Cosmos Hub

We are joining the Interchain Foundation, and are rebranding Skip to Interchain Inc., as we become the ICF’s main development, product, and growth subsidiary! Read the announcement to learn more.

Who we are

📌 Interchain Inc (formerly, Skip) leads development for the Cosmos Hub, ecosystem, and stack -- the leading platform for building sovereign, interoperable blockchains. We're dedicated to offering developers full-stack programmability, complete ownership of their economics, and best-in-class distribution to users everywhere.

Our mission is to build a more free, more fair internet with the Cosmos platform at the core. The best teams already build with Cosmos across every category: defi (dYdX, Osmosis, Injective), infrastructure (Babylon, Celestia, Initia),  Depin/AI (Akash, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, Allora), privacy (Nillion, Penumbra), and many more. We want to help these teams and many more help bring the values of sovereignty and decentralization to the rest of the internet by developing the Cosmos stack and hub. 

We focus on hiring the core team and senior talent to work together in person in NYC to build a collaborative and supportive culture. But we’re still open to hiring best-in-class remote talent anywhere within 6 hours of the NYC timezone.

Interchain Inc is committed to inclusion.

Interchain Inc. is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We believe the purpose of crypto is to expand who has agency in society, which starts at home, by empowering people with diverse gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, and life experiences within our own organization. Interchain Inc. offers dedicated mentorship to support personal growth and a bright career in crypto.

Core team member responsibilities

1. Work to solve hard technical problems at the cutting edge of blockchain research alongside the founders.
2. Be empowered to make bold technical and strategic decisions.
3. Play a critical role in determining the people we hire, our culture, our engineering practices, and the products we ship.

How we work

1. We value ambition, work ethic, and m (slope) over prestige, accomplishments, and y-intercept.
2. We value thoughtful and contentious dialogue over siloed and unilateral decision-making.
3. We value acknowledging uncertainty/weakness and seeking support over unabated confidence and solo performances.
4. We’re obsessive about documenting everything, learning, and shipping as fast as possible with short feedback cycles. 

Benefits

✈️ 18 days of paid leave

🧑‍⚕️ Premium health insurance

🏦 Competitive regional compensation and token compensation

📁 Office space and accommodations for remote work

👉 We’re open to arranging paid work trials with potential hires because we think interviews give a very limited view of candidates and the company.

Description: We are looking for a senior-level software engineer to build the core DeFi primitives of the Cosmos ecosystem.

The ideal candidate is opinionated about protocol design, but also cares deeply about how the choices they make impact the developer and user experience at the application level. This person does not strictly see themselves as a protocol designer/engineer, and is comfortable building systems off-chain to support and operate on chain components. They are excited to work collaboratively with product, engineering, and customers in a fast-paced environment, and are not bothered when product requirements are iterated upon alongside development.

Role

• Work collaboratively with engineers, product, and partners to design and implement new features on the Cosmos Hub.
• Participate in, and improve upon, the end-to-end well-being of the Hub from a stability, testing, security, and maintenance perspective.
• Develop testing and telemetry for existing and new Hub products. Propose and implement plans for removing bottlenecks at scale.
• Coordinate adjacent team members’ contributions to your features and contribute to their success.

Qualifications

• Requirements
  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • Previous experience designing, delivering, and operating substantial features requiring multiple engineers, teams, and potentially companies to collaborate.
  • Has been responsible for the successful deployment, operation, and maintenance of a production blockchain systems
• Bonus
  • Interest in novel DeFi and blockchain protocols–you’re the type of person reading litepapers instead of Twitter threads.
  • Experience with the Cosmos development stack (SDK/Comet).