Integrations Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote

About the role

As an Integrations Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in growing the Axelar Ecosystem by adding connections to new blockchains. You will collaborate with the product and protocol teams to prioritize integrations. You will also become intimately familiar with the Axelar protocol and stack to help facilitate new chain integrations, providing necessary guidance to external teams that utilize the Axelar network to connect new chains. Your primary responsibility will be to take lead on an integration and progress it through different environments all the way to production. With each integration you will improve the tooling and processes around integrations including internal deployments, testing frameworks, deployment scripts, security, monitoring & alerting as well as libraries to interact with the chain and the deployed smart contracts that support interchain communication.

Your responsibilities

Take ownership of the end-to-end integration process for new blockchains
Manage the deployments and upgrades of Axelar's smart contracts & core network to support integrations.
Improve stability and reliability of in-house DApps.
Build and expand our monitoring capabilities to ensure our stack, as well as that of public validators, runs smoothly.
Evaluate and help integrate new security focused protocols.
Strengthen our security posture and refining protocols for offline signing.
Improve the infrastructure and deployment to improve team's agility and velocity.
Forge solid relationships within Interop Labs to fully understand the needs in the ecosystem whilst working in an agile environment.
Collaborate with external teams that integrate with the Axelar network.

Your profile

Experience interacting with smart contracts.
Scripting and tooling experience preferably in Javascript/Golang
Experience managing a blockchain network and coordinating upgrades.
Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes in a cloud environment.
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).
Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools, such as GitHub Actions.
Security first coding and deployment mindset.
Understanding of blockchains / DeFi as a user is a plus.
Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to lead and share knowledge to reach solutions as well as the keenness to learn.
You enjoy being hands on, being a self starter that thrives well in ambiguity.
A problem solver at heart that can envision successful outcomes.

Why us?

Autonomous, distributed environment with the opportunity to work collaboratively in a diverse team worldwide.
The scope to contribute to high-impact work and make a difference in a decentralized protocol.
The chance to challenge yourself while 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.

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About us

Interop Labs builds interoperability technology.

Interoperability between blockchains is crucial technology infrastructure for the growth of Web3 and the advancement of internet technology as a whole. Interop Labs is the initial developer of Axelar Network - the programmable Web3 interoperability platform, scaling the next generation of internet applications to billions of users. Axelar network's key attributes are programmability, security and scalability.

Axelar (https://axelar.network) has raised over $100 million from leading VCs including DCVC, Galaxy, Polychain, Dragonfly, Coinbase, and more. Its diverse partner ecosystem spans industry heavyweights such as Ripple, Circle, dYdX, Uniswap, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, and others—underscoring Axelar’s unique market position and opportunity in unifying stacks between traditional finance and decentralized ecosystems. Axelar protocol was founded by Sergey Gorbunov (MIT PhD, UWaterloo Professor) and Georgios Vlachos (MIT MSc, Math Gold Medalist), who previously helped to build and launch Algorand.

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