About Burnt XION
About the role
We are looking for senior, top of ecosystem engineers to augment and/or lead our growing protocol team.
Required experience:
- Software development, 8+ years
- Blockchain or similar distributed systems design/development, 5+ years
- Cosmos SDK development, 3+ years
- Golang, 3+ years
- IBC protocol/app design
Recommended experience:
- Rust, 3+ years
- Typescript, 3+ years
- Hyperlane warp routes
Day to day work and responsibilities:
- Optimization and functional expansion of high use modules such as x/auth, x/authz, x/feegrant
- Custom cross-chain integrations with IBC or non-IBC blockchains
- Integration of protocol level ZK proving systems for consumer dapp integration
- Expand testing automation and internal development tooling
- Coordinate and collaborate with the best teams in the web2 and web3 space
- Research and evaluation of cutting edge protocol concepts, to maintain the forward facing technological sustainability of the platform
Why work at Burnt Labs / XION:
- Consumer minded team, building for massive audiences and user-bases
- Direct product ownership and impact
- Autonomy and independence
- Competitive compensation
Responsibilities
- Optimization and functional expansion of high use modules such as x/auth, x/authz, x/feegrant
- Custom cross-chain integrations with IBC or non-IBC blockchains
- Integration of protocol level ZK proving systems for consumer dapp integration
- Expand testing automation and internal development tooling
- Coordinate and collaborate with the best teams in the web2 and web3 space
- Research and evaluation of cutting edge protocol concepts, to maintain the forward facing technological sustainability of the platform
- Consumer minded team, building for massive audiences and user-bases
- Direct product ownership and impact
- Autonomy and independence
- Competitive compensation
Requirements
- Cosmos SDK (advanced)
- Go (advanced)
- Rust (intermediate)
- TypeScript (intermediate)
- Blockchain development (advanced)
- 8+ years of commercial experience
- Formal education: nice to have
- English (advanced)
Technology stack
Cosmos SDKCosmosBlockchainRustTypeScriptGoBlockchain developmentCryptocurrency



