Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

About The Role

As an engineer working on Chainlink, you’ll collaborate with the company’s product experts, designers, and an experienced technical team of other senior engineers, distributed systems experts and security experts, who are all committed to building world changing decentralized infrastructure. You’ll develop and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable software that will change the way people interact with smart contracts at a fundamental level. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and master the latest research concerning distributed systems, cryptography, blockchains, game theory, consensus algorithms, and decentralized applications. You will be given a high level of autonomy/ownership over your projects, the opportunity to expand your scope of knowledge, and the chance to help build the decentralized infrastructure of the future.

Your Impact

Primarily using React and TypeScript, focusing on the UIs of the company’s various products, including data.chain.link, automation.chain.link, and ccip.chain.link
Implementing initial prototypes and proofs of concept, and taking them all the way to production code interfacing with thousands of users.
Improving the existing interfaces with our blockchain products.
Maintaining a robust suite of tests to ensure that the UI functionality of our products is of the highest quality

Requirements

Proficiency with Typescript, React, HTML, CSS
Experience building high-impact web application frontends, backend APIs
Knowledge of systems design
Excellent communication skills, specifically giving/receiving constructive feedback in a collaborative setting
Genuine interest in blockchain and web3 technology

Preferred Requirements

Experience with Vercel, NextJs, GraphQL, React Query, Playwright or other testing framework(s)
Knowledge of Web3, EthersJS, Solidity, Smart contract development
Understanding of SQL and Postgres

Your Motivations

Driven by high-impact projects
Seeks technical competence
Self-motivated by personal excellence standards
Values independence, autonomy, flexibility
Motivated by a values-based vision

Your Problem-Solving Approach

Responsible for outcomes
Focused on delivering practical value to end users
Prefers maintainable, long-lasting solutions with a good developer experience
Evaluates trade offs when making decisions
Identifies root causes before proposing solutions
Thinks creatively and proposes effective alternatives

How You Relate To Others

Seeks a mutually supportive team for collective success
Engages collaboratively with opposing ideas
Candid and seeks help when stuck
Enjoys sharing and receiving knowledge
Values authenticity in a team
Assumes the best of intentions and extends trust to team members by default

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__All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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