About Babylon
Babylon is a blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. We are proudly backed by leading investors including Polychain, Hack VC, and Framework. The project’s mission is to unlock Bitcoin security for the decentralized world. Our fast-growing team consists of engineers, researchers, and seasoned business experts. Our team culture is open, inclusive, agile, and passionate, and we highly value everyone’s personal growth.
About the Job
You will be a senior software engineer contributing to the life cycle of the Babylon system's core components for interacting with the Bitcoin ledger, from design to maintenance. Some examples of core components are the Bitcoin Staking libraries, Babylon node, and the relayers between the Babylon blockchain and Bitcoin.
About You
You are an experienced crypto-native software engineer with a deep understanding of Bitcoin and its ecosystem, consensus, and security. You have a proven track record of developing libraries that interact with the state of art Bitcoin tooling. You are passionate and ambitious about blockchain, follow best practices in software development, and have high work standards. You are open, responsible, and willing to help others.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in CS, electrical engineering, or equivalent
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3+ years of experience in blockchain layer-1 development
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2+ years of experience working with popular Bitcoin libraries (btcd, lnd, bitcoinlib-js)
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1+ years of experience in designing and implementing protocols on top of Bitcoin
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Proficient in Golang and Typescript
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Solid grasp of CI/CD practices and tools, ensuring smooth and reliable deployments.
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Fluent in English, with strong communication skills for effective collaboration in a global team.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Contributions to open-source blockchain projects.
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Experience with other blockchain ecosystems, preferably Cosmos.
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Experience with BitVM.
Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Babylon Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring secured Bitcoin staking to the world. Supported by top venture funds like Paradigm, Polychain Capital, Bullish, Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, Framework Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, OKX Ventures, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of trustless Bitcoin staking!
Top Skills
What We Do
At Babylon, we envision a future where Bitcoin and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chains thrive together. Our mission is to build a Bitcoin-driven decentralized world by evolving Bitcoin into a trusted security backbone for PoS chains, delivering yields for bitcoin holders while fostering an integrated, secure, and decentralized economy.
We trace our genesis to a transformative research paper on Bitcoin security, an original work co-authored by our co-founders, David Tse and Fisher Yu, the founder of EigenLayer, Sreeram Kannan and co-authors. Their combined intellect and foresight have set the cornerstone of Babylon.
In a testament to our dedication to advancing the field, our research paper has been accepted by the highly-respected 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - a significant global platform for security discourse.
The project is led by a team of consensus protocol researchers from Stanford and experienced layer 1 engineers from around the world. Babylon’s mission is to scale Bitcoin to secure the decentralized world. To achieve this, Babylon utilizes the three primary facets of Bitcoin: Bitcoin as an asset, its reliable timestamping service, its most censorship-resistant blockspace in the world. To leverage these facets, Babylon is developing three innovative security-sharing protocols: Bitcoin Staking Protocol, Bitcoin Timestamping Protocol, and Bitcoin Data Availability Protocol. Through these pioneering protocols, Babylon envisions a more secure and decentralized future
