Figment Jobs in Canada

At Figment, we are helping developers launch apps across the top Web 3 protocols. As a Protocol Engineer focused on the success of multi-chain deployments, you will work directly with developers to help them optimize their experience with DataHub. You will become our internal expert about dapp development on multiple protocols, run test cases before launching support for new protocols, and work through protocol issues customers might encounter. You will be directly responsible to guarantee a great experience for developers building on Web 3.

Responsibilities/Duties

• Work with external teams to provide our customers the best possible experience developing on new protocols
• Develop and own best practices for app development
• Build infrastructure and APIs needed to support new blockchains
• Write stable, high coverage test cases for new protocol launches
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Collaborate with other engineers and PMs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience

• Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining core backend software components (experience with API platforms a plus)

• Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems

• Experience with production distributed systems, web applications, and microservice architecture

• Proven track record building highly available and highly scalable systems

• Experience developing in Javascript, Golang, and/or Rust a plus

• Knowledge of smart contract development (Solidity, Substrate, or similar) a plus

• A passion for blockchain technologies a plus