Position: Golang Engineer (Blockchain)
Company: Soft-ready
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We are on a mission to become a true liquid staking hub offering seamless and capital-efficient staking and DeFi experience for Proof-of-Stake (PoS) users, empowering developers to build innovative applications around liquid-staked assets.

**About the company:**
Our company is a decentralized Tendermint-based Layer-1 blockchain powering an ecosystem of DeFi applications focused on unlocking the liquidity of staked assets.
The Core-1 chain facilitates the issuance and deployment of liquid-staked stkASSETs via pSTAKE, allowing users to earn staking rewards while participating in DeFi primitives, such as borrowing & lending and liquidity provisioning on Decentralised Exchanges. Having enabled CosmWasm, the core-1 chain also promotes the deployment of
Dapps via Smart Contracts.

**Responsibilities:**
• Design, build, ship, and maintain production-grade blockchain software
• Produce and review technical designs and reference documentation
• Contribute to team planning, estimation, and road mapping
• Promote and implement software engineering best practices
• Coach junior developers
• Lead code reviews and demonstrations

**Your expertise:**
• A **Bachelor’s in Computer Science** or a related technical field
• **3+ years** experience as a full-time software developer
• **3+ years** of experience with **Web3**
• Strong knowledge of modern software development and testing practices
• Strong expertise in **Golang** with prior experience in building applications in **Golang**
• Necessary experience in **Javascript/Typescript**
• Well-versed with **Github** practices and **GitHub CI**
• Strong knowledge of blockchains and proof of stake
• Excellent troubleshooting skills

**Requirements:**
• Experience with cloud-native application development **(k8s, Docker, GH actions,**
• **CI/CD)**
• Previous experience working with either **Rust** or **Python**
• Frontend development and integration experience
• Knowledge of **RPC/WebSockets, web3js, cosmjs/cosmos-SDK**
• Experience in **DeFi** **(decentralized finance)** or derivatives trading
• Contributions to open source projects and especially in blockchain
• Moderate experience with any one of these **Postgres, Graphql, and leveldb**
• **BONUS:** Experience with **Liquid Staking**
• **BONUS:** Experience with **Cosmos-SDK / Cosmos IBC tech-stack**
• **BONUS:** **Open Source Contributions**, especially within the blockchain space

**Benefits:**
• Competitive Salary & Leave policy
• Fully remote working, or from major hubs
• Flexible Working Hours
• Continuous in-house training & mentoring
• Sponsored travel to international industry conferences
• Active support of a healthy lifestyle
• Family-friendly: paid paternity/maternity leave
• Annual team off-site
• Access to professional subscriptions (Messari, Nansen, etc)

**Interview stages:**
• Pre-screening
• An interview with a recruiter
• Tech interview