Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

About Us 

Defuse Labs develops NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain interactions in an automated world — connecting AI, services, and financial applications. At Defuse Labs we design intent-driven liquidity layers, where smart contracts breathe, AI transacts and chains sync in real-time With expertise in AI, cryptography, and decentralized finance, our team is redefining how intelligent agents interact across blockchain networks.

We invite you to be a part of our team of smart, professional, result-oriented and fun individuals. Join us to help ensure that our background processes run smoothly while we are striving to become the best in the industry

About the position

We're looking for a web3-native Senior Software Engineer who wants to work in a fast-paced start-up and is motivated at the prospect of building something new from the ground up, and gets engaged at an early stage of projects. 

This position is focused on building blazing-fast infrastructure for a cross-chain DEX utilizing multi-party computation, chain signatures, secure enclaves and intent-based architecture. Our goal is to bridge the gaps between EVM and non-EVM chains so a deep understanding of a wide range of blockchain technologies is required. 

You will work closely with the Protocol team and external partners to provide the fastest and the most reliable infrastructure for autonomous agents.

This role is split between two responsibilities: software engineering (60%) and site reliability (40%).

 

Your responsibilities will include

• Creating a platform for autonomous agents performing precise financial operations.
• Optimizing every millisecond of user <> agent interactions.
• Implementing deep tracing and observability of data flows.
• Creating the best SDK and reference implementations for external agents to use.
• Ensuring high availability of the whole system, utilizing cloud-native solutions.
• Designing, testing and implementing the most resilient state machines for managing RFQs.

 

About you

You are a Senior Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems with elegant solutions. You have a strong technical background in systems development and optimization, coupled with a deep interest in blockchain technology. You are resourceful, analytical, and committed to delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

 

Key Qualifications

• Deep expertise in building resilient services in Typescript and Go.
• Successful track-record and proven experience as a distributed systems engineer.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

 

Desired skills

• Proven experience in site reliability engineering.
• Familiarity with GKE and GCP.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and computational optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with distributed systems architecture and debugging.

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