About Babylon
Babylon is an innovative blockchain project founded by Claude E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University, and backed by leading investors like Paradigm, Polychain, Hack VC, and Framework. Our mission is to unlock Bitcoin security for the decentralised world. Join our fast-growing team of engineers, researchers, and business experts in building the future of blockchain.
About the Job
As an Integration Engineer specialising in Cosmos ecosystem, you will play a critical role in bringing Babylon to the Cosmos ecosystem. This involves developing, maintaining, and optimizing integrations for seamless interoperability between Babylon and other Cosmos-based chains. You'll work closely with core protocol engineers to ensure secure, efficient, and scalable integrations that leverage the power of CosmWasm.
About You
You are a software engineer with a strong foundation in blockchain technology, particularly within the Cosmos ecosystem. You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are passionate about driving innovation in the decentralized space.
Key Responsibilities:
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Design, develop, and maintain CosmWasm/Ethereum smart contracts for integration with the Babylon protocol.
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Design integration solutions for performance, security, and reliability.
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Collaborate with core protocol engineers to identify and resolve integration challenges.
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Contribute to the development of Babylon's toolings/SDKs for Cosmos/Ethereum ecosystem.
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Keep track of with the latest developments in the Cosmos/Ethereum ecosystems and technology.
Qualifications:
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2+ years of experience in blockchain development in Go and/or Rust.
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Deep understanding of Ethereum & Cosmos SDK and CometBFT consensus, IBC, CosmWasm.
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Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
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Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience with other blockchain ecosystems (e.g., Solana).
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Contributions to open-source blockchain projects.
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Familiarity with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and the staking ecosystem.
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
