As a Technical Program Manager at Interop Labs, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end process of integrating new and existing blockchains into Axelar Network. You will work closely with engineering, product, and business teams both internally and externally to ensure the successful integration of chain protocols, delivering high-quality technical solutions that align with Axelar’s strategic vision for blockchain interoperability.

Your responsibilities

• Define the technical requirements, timelines, and execution plans for chain integrations.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams and external teams to ensure smooth integrations and proper alignment with Axelar’s infrastructure and technical standards.
• Oversee the execution of blockchain integrations from start to finish, managing timelines, dependencies, and resources to ensure successful and timely delivery.
• Work with product and business development teams to identify key blockchain integrations that align with Axelar’s business goals and roadmap.
• Drive technical discussions with teams to understand their protocols and identify integration challenges and opportunities.
• Monitor the performance and security of integrated chains, addressing any issues that arise post-integration.
• Document technical integration plans, processes, and updates, ensuring stakeholders are kept informed throughout the integration lifecycle.
• Continuously evaluate and improve the integration processes to ensure scalability, efficiency, and high-quality execution.

Your profile

• Strong understanding of blockchain protocols, consensus mechanisms, and decentralized systems.
• Comfort with blockchain development, decentralized finance (DeFi) concepts, and understanding how to work with multiple blockchains to enable interoperability.
• Experience with blockchain integrations or working with Layer-1/Layer-2 solutions is a plus.
• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring all are delivered on time and meet the required technical standards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to identify, assess, and troubleshoot integration challenges, leveraging internal and external resources to resolve issues.

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.

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 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.

What are we all about?

We are a team of builders and researchers on a mission to empower enterprises and developers worldwide to access and build on decentralized systems.

Our expertise covers several domains: Ethereum and Starknet protocol engineering, layer-2, AI, cryptography research, protocol research, decentralized finance (DeFi), security auditing, formal verification, real-time monitoring, smart contract development, and dapps and enterprise engineering.

Working to solve some of the most challenging problems in the blockchain space, we frequently collaborate with renowned companies, such as Ethereum Foundation, Starknet Foundation, Gnosis Chain, Flashbots, Forta Protocol, Lido, EigenLayer, Open Zeppelin, RISCZero, Aleph Zero, and many more.

Today, we are a 350+ strong team working remotely across 66+ countries.

The role

The Nethermind team is seeking a experience Software engineer with a background in confidential computing. We offer a unique opportunity to work on a variety of diverse projects where strong experience, knowledge and understanding of secure computing platforms is a must. The candidate will be working cross-functionally across the company partnering with our product teams to implement solutions in secure environments in a broad array of applications of use cases from AI through to Finance. The role requires a balance of technical expertise, research mindset, as well as practical engineering skills to take innovative ideas into production.

How to Know If You’re the Right Fit

If you’re driven by complex challenges and excited by the prospect of working with cutting-edge technologies, this role is for you. We’re looking for individuals who are not just engineers but innovators—those who are eager to collaborate with the best minds in the industry and make a significant impact on the future of technology.

Why This Role Is Exciting

• Work with the Best: Collaborate with some of the brightest engineers and researchers in the industry.
• Innovative Challenges: Tackle projects that require deep algorithmic thinking and advanced design.
• Impactful Work: Contribute directly to the development of technologies that push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Collaborative Environment: Partner with leading developers and researchers shaping the future of decentralized technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with engineers across the company on all stages of projects, through design, implementation and testing.
• Partnering with teams across the company from Product through to Engineering to apply your skills to solutions integrating confidential computing.
• Contribute to product documentation.
• Maintain, test and release new and existing confidential compute infrastructure.

Skills:

• Experienced shipping new products all the way through the product stack.
• Proficiency with developing in C++.
• Experience with Rust or JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Trusted Execution Environments (e.g. SGX, TDX, TrustZone, NVIDIA Confidential Compute).
• Familiarity with web protocols (HTTP, QUIC).
• Understanding of the CI/CD developer pipeline and tools (Github, VSCode, Linux).

Nice to have:

• Understanding of distributed consensus algorithms and cryptography concepts (e.g. Zero-Knowledge).
• You can think independently, with drive and initiative, even when challenged and under pressure.
• You can communicate complex concepts and ideas to a broad array of audiences.
• You have a strong interest in distributed systems, privacy technologies, blockchains and cryptocurrencies.

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Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating the majority of trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2024 Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $9 billion in customer TVL.

Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 60 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.

Gauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain, and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st century financial innovation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable systems for data from DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, and various other data sources
• Contribute to making our platform world-class
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their system requirements and provide the necessary support to help their productivity.
• Implement quality control measures to ensure system integrity and quality
• Actively participate in code and design reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and maintaining high coding standards
• Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure the continuous improvement of the platform
• Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and user guides
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software defects, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of professional development experience. More is better, but we’re flexible. We’re hiring all levels Senior, Staff, etc.
• Experience developing production quality software in Python, Rust, Go, C++, or other high-performance languages
• Experience with distributed computation frameworks and related technologies such as Dagster, Kubeflow, Spark, TensorFlow, Flink, etc.
• Experience with database design and building backend systems.
• Ability to quickly internalize abstract concepts in new domains, coupled with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and within a team, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience with building machine learning infrastructure.
• Experience developing and shipping user-facing features
• Smart contract development experience (e.g. Solidity)

Benefits and Perks

• Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
• Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive based compensation
• Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country “office visit” perk
• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
• Laptop, monitor, keyboard and mouse setup provided
• $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining
• $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
• Fertility benefits

Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.

The national pay range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.