Chainlink Labs
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.
Senior Software Engineer, Payments
Location
New York
Posted
21 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor DegreeEnglishMicroservicesGo
Job Description
• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services in Go that support mission-critical payments, billing, and account systems.
• Own one or more core services end-to-end, ensuring high reliability, strong observability, and clear operational ownership.
• Deliver meaningful system improvements (e.g., new services, major refactors, or performance enhancements) that increase scalability, correctness, and developer velocity.
• Strengthen service health by reducing operational risk, technical debt, and incident frequency through proactive reliability and architecture improvements.
• Lead and contribute to design and code reviews, raising the quality bar for service architecture, testing, and production readiness.
• Partner cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to make complex backend systems understandable and usable.
• Ensure backend services integrate securely and effectively with smart contracts and on-chain systems.
Job Requirements
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend services, with strong proficiency in Go.
- Strong understanding of smart contracts and blockchain fundamentals, including how off-chain services interact with on-chain systems.
- Demonstrated experience designing and evolving complex microservices architectures supporting cross-functional and mission-critical systems.
- Experience building and operating production systems with strong operational excellence, including reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident response.
- Ability to take ownership of services across the full lifecycle: design, implementation, deployment, and iteration.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including leading design reviews and documenting architectural decisions.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing strategy, performance considerations, and code quality practices.
Benefits
- 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).
