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Salary: £67,000 - 107,000 per year
Requirements: Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production platforms.Advanced proficiency developing production systems in Go (Golang).Experience building production APIs and backend applications serving multiple stakeholders.Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems.Demonstrated ability to deliver reliable, high-quality software through rigorous engineering practices.Strong systems thinking with the ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs and solve complex technical problems.Self-driven approach with a high degree of ownership, technical curiosity, and continuous learning.Excellent collaboration and communication skills within cross-functional engineering environments.Preferred: experience defining, measuring, and improving service reliability through SLOs and SLIs.Preferred: experience developing software using TypeScript, Solidity, or additional backend technologies.Preferred: strong interest in blockchain infrastructure and Web3 technologies.Preferred: experience building decentralized applications (dApps).Preferred: experience developing financial infrastructure, banking systems, or other mission-critical distributed platforms. Responsibilities: Design, build, and operate highly scalable platform services that improve the reliability and performance of the CRE platform.Lead the development of production-grade backend services and APIs that support multiple internal stakeholders and platform consumers.Drive architectural improvements that enable both vertical and horizontal platform scaling.Improve workflow execution durability and platform resilience through thoughtful engineering, rigorous testing, and operational excellence.Partner with engineering teams across the organization to deliver cross-functional platform initiatives from architectural design through production deployment.Strengthen platform ownership by reducing operational silos, improving documentation, and increasing shared knowledge across the engineering organization.Contribute to improving platform reliability through engineering practices aligned with service reliability objectives and measurable operational outcomes. Technologies: BackendBlockchainDAppsGolangSupportOracleSolidityTypeScriptWeb3Swift More:
We are Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). Our Chainlink stack provides essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. We have enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and secure the vast majority of DeFi. Many of the worlds largest financial services institutions and top protocols use our standards and infrastructure. This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on advancing the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) platform. We are a global, remote-based team, and unless otherwise stated we ask that you overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST). We offer competitive cash compensation, long-term incentives, and comprehensive benefits.
last updated 36 week of 2026