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Software Engineer - Skip Go (Backend)

Interchain Labs
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 2/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

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 stackthe 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.

Core team member responsibilities

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

How we work

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

    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 backend software engineer to help us build Skip Go, a completely open-source, full-stack platform for chain abstraction, powering the next generation of crypto experiences.

    The ideal candidate is product-oriented and cares deeply about delivering cross-chain experiences that are both intuitive to developers and seamless to end users. They are excited to learn about the various interoperability protocols and use them to improve our product experiences. They understand the critical importance of ensuring the safety of the billions of dollars in value our products facilitate and are well accustomed to thinking adversarially about the code they produce.

    Role :

  • Work collaboratively with engineers, product, and partners to design and implement new features in the suite of Skip Go backend services.
  • Develop testing and observability strategies that encompass the many interactions between the on-chain and off-chain components of our products.
  • Serve as the expert on and primary owner of a critical sub-system in Skip Go (e.g. trade optimization engine, relayer, etc...)
  • Requirements :

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proven experience working collaboratively within a team to ship high-quality software
  • Interest in crypto and blockchains
  • Bonus

  • Experience developing smart contracts
  • Experience developing software that interacts with blockchains
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