Senior Backend Engineer (Protocol Dev)

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Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g., physics or mathematics).
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record of delivering highly scalable products/features on distributed systems.
• 2+ years of full life cycle development with Go, Rust, C++ or similar language.
• Experience with REST and gRPC.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Spark, and/or Athena.
• Experience in data pipelines/processing.
• DevOps experience (AWS).
• Strong knowledge of the Ethereum protocol.

Responsibilities:

• Ramp up on protocol design knowledge, understand smart contracts and off-chain systems.
• Collaborate to reduce on-chain complexity during migration of computation off-chain.
• Build clients for end users.
• Develop systems for off-chain reliability and ensure proper data management.
• Ideate, design, and develop new features.
• Engage with developer communities for knowledge exchange.
• Define best practices for backend operations across Eigen Labs.