Protocol Engineer

## TL;DR
- **Role:** Protocol Engineer at TechTree
- **Level:** Junior
- **Comp:** USD 250,000 - 400,000/yr
- **Setup:** Hybrid · New York, NY, United States
- **Type:** Full-time

## You Might Be a Fit If...
- 4–10 years experience
- Must have built and shipped customer-facing products
- Experience at top-tier scaled crypto or fintech companies
- Top-tier academic background (nice-to-have)
- Must be genuinely excited by Inversion s mission
- Must have crypto interest
- Must be willing to work hybrid in NYC
- H1B transfer welcome

- Avalanche experience
- EVM L1/L2s
- Making a chain EVM-ready
- Infra + chain operations
- validators
- nodes
- indexers
- cloud deployment
- reliability
- monitoring
- security
- Smart contract capability
- Solidity
- DeFi enablement
- Security + authentication
- wallets
- accounts
- middleware
- pragmatic security
- Systems engineering
- strong systems thinking
- custom infra
- Fintech/payments experience
- KYC/KYB
- custody
- settlement
- distributed systems
- data pipelines
- production debugging
- blockchain familiarity
- EVM
- Avalanche
- Cosmos
- L2s
- Bridging/cross-chain infra experience
- Wormhole
- LayerZero

Team members

- 7

- **Salary:** 250000 - 400000 USD

- **Equity:** equity, 0.13–0.45%

## What You'll Actually Do
Architect and implement the Inversion Chain, an Avalanche-based L1, build core infrastructure, integrate DeFi apps, and ensure network reliability and scalability.

- Architect and implement the Inversion Chain, a sovereign, Avalanche-based L1 optimized for consumer-scale performance, low latency, and business integration.
- Build core infrastructure modules, SDKs, and developer tooling that support rapid integration of real-world assets and applications across Inversion s portfolio companies.
- Collaborate with external issuers or partners to integrate blue-chip DeFi applications.
- Support forthcoming Inversion-led products, such as mobile wallet and FinTech experience, providing frictionless UX comparable to top-tier fintech apps like Nubank or Robinhood.
- Contribute to validator infrastructure, tokenomics models, and interoperability frameworks that enable efficient migration of users and data from traditional systems to on-chain environments.
- Design, build, and optimize core consensus, networking, and execution layers of the Inversion Chain.
- Lead development of Inversion s initial base contracts (e.g., collecting pre-deposits) and collaborate with external issuers or partners to integrate DeFi protocols.
- Serve as the technical architect; establish best practices for code quality, security, and performance.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain validator nodes, RPC infrastructure, and developer APIs to ensure network reliability and scalability.
- Partner with Product Managers and leadership to align protocol development with business objectives and user adoption strategies.
- Implement robust security frameworks, including cryptographic best practices, code audits, and formal verification processes.
- Continuously evaluate emerging blockchain protocols, consensus mechanisms, and interoperability standards to ensure Inversion stays on the cutting edge of protocol design.

## About the Team
Inversion acquires and transforms legacy businesses using blockchain technology. Backed by **$26.5M from Dragonfly and top VCs, the team builds crypto-enabled business models that bring real-world users on-chain.**