Senior Backend Engineer
About Axelar
Axelar delivers secure cross-chain communication for Web3. As a universal overlay network, Axelar supports general message passing and composability of decentralised programs via a proof-of-stake transport layer. Developer tools and APIs make it easy for both protocol and application developers to integrate interoperability. See our cross-chain sandbox for a taste of the developer experience.
Axelar has raised capital from top-tier investors, including Binance, Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, and Polychain Capital. Partners include major proof-of-stake blockchain s, such as Avalanche, Cosmos, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Axelar’s co-founders are founding team members of Algorand and award-winning graduates of MIT, where they received notable recognition as part of their graduate studies.
The Axelar network mainnet has been live since January, 2022. It supports cross-chain asset transfers across over 30 networks, with more networks and assets added regularly.
Axelar has developed a sample cross-chain asset transfer application called , which provides a simple, efficient user experience to transfer assets between chains. Other applications building multichain experiences on Axelar include cross-chain NFT marketplaces, liquidity routers (like ), yield aggregators, privacy services and gaming guilds.
Axelar is building the infrastructure to connect Web3. Join us!
Requirements
What you will be doing
- Designing highly reliable blockchain monitoring and integration services to support Axelar Network and front-end applications
- Writing backend applications for cross-chain protocol workflows such as asset transfer, generalised message passing, and interoperation between smart-contracts.
- Orchestrating microservices running in different execution environments like Kubernetes and AWS lambdas
- Building SDKs for developers to easily plug-and-play new blockchains and applications on Axelar Network.
What you will need
- Strong experience working with distributed systems at scale
- Deep knowledge of fault tolerance in distributed systems and building software that fails gracefully and recovers transparently
- Experience working with distributed messaging frameworks (RabbitMQ, AMQP, or similar) and message driven applications.
- We use GoLang, TypeScript, Terraform, AWS in our day-to-day work. You may not be an expert with all of these technologies, but we are looking for somebody with strong skills with some of them or with transferable experience.
Benefits
- Autonomous, distributed environment with the opportunity to work collaboratively in a diverse team across the world
- The scope to contribute to high impact work and really make a difference in a decentralized protocol
- Chance to really challenge yourself whilst learning heaps of stuff in the process
- Unlimited time off throughout the year to rest and recharge
- Competitive compensation with stock options, experiencing growth from the initial phase