Senior Protocol Engineer at XION (Remote)
XION·
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Job description
We’re a fast-growing tech scale-up with $36M in funding, revolutionizing the modern internet with cutting-edge solutions that drive mass-adoption. We already work with major brands such as Uber, Amazon, North Face, Temu, Lego, BMW, North Face and 100’s more. Our secret? Removing all blockchain and crypto complexities that are barriers to creating user-friendly applications solving real-world use-cases. Our investors include Multicoin, Circle Ventures, Animoca, Valor, Alliance DAO, and more. With a community of over 1M followers across all socials and a CEO who has been featured on the NYSE and NASDAQ, we believe we are only at the beginning of making XION a global brand.
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We are looking for senior, top of ecosystem engineers to augment and/or lead our growing protocol team.
Required experience:
- Software development, 8+ years
- Blockchain or similar distributed systems design/development, 5+ years
- Cosmos SDK development, 3+ years
- Golang, 3+ years
- IBC protocol/app design
Recommended experience:
- Rust, 3+ years
- Typescript, 3+ years
- Hyperlane warp routes
Day to day work and responsibilities:
- Optimization and functional expansion of high use modules such as x/auth, x/authz, x/feegrant
- Custom cross-chain integrations with IBC or non-IBC blockchains
- Integration of protocol level ZK proving systems for consumer dapp integration
- Expand testing automation and internal development tooling
- Coordinate and collaborate with the best teams in the web2 and web3 space
- Research and evaluation of cutting edge protocol concepts, to maintain the forward facing technological sustainability of the platform
Why work at Burnt Labs / XION:
- Consumer minded team, building for massive audiences and user-bases
- Direct product ownership and impact
- Autonomy and independence
- Competitive compensation
Why work at XION
- Culture: Fast-growing tech scale-up with a mission-driven focus on solving the internet's trust crisis. Described as a "startup" environment that values innovation and impact.
- Remote/hybrid policy: Remote-first with offices in New York (HQ) and Berlin; some roles are fully remote, others are NYC/Europe-based with remote or hybrid options.
- Notable perks/engineering culture: Work on cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure (Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, zero-knowledge proofs); opportunities to shape a protocol that is already used by major brands; CEO has been featured on NYSE and NASDAQ; 28 total employees with 64.3% YoY headcount growth signals strong scaling momentum.
- Team composition: 26% technical staff, with roles for Senior Protocol Engineer, Front End ("High-Functioning Psychopath"), Developer Relations Engineer, Head of Design, Ecosystem Growth, and Marketing Project Manager.