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All in Bits (AiB) · 1 week ago

Principal Product and Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

6+ years exp

All in Bits (AiB) is seeking an experienced Blockchain Product and Engineering Lead to direct their engineering team responsible for the Gno.land Smart Contract platform. This role focuses on building, maintaining, and evolving blockchain systems while ensuring product execution aligns with the company's mission and goals.

Crypto & Web3Information TechnologySoftwarePaymentsBlockchainEthereumTrading Platform

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide strategic product and engineering leadership across product areas, ensuring alignment with Gno.Lands mission, product goals and brand

Help define engineering standards for correctness, reliability and high assurance execution

Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to shape the product roadmap, define user journeys, and identify new opportunities to improve Gno.lands experience

Elevate our product engineering systems and operational processes to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability

Foster a culture of user-centered thinking, rapid iteration, and cross-team collaboration

Collaborate with product, frontend, backend and design teams to translate product requirements into working features

Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks using profiling, tracing and benchmarking tools

Build products that can interface with various blockchain consensus mechanisms such as proof of work, proof of stake, and delegated byzantine fault tolerance

Pre/post-launch ownership

Comfortable in working close to runtime constraints where performance, determinism and resilience are critical

Comfortable working in a lean fast-moving team with minimal supervision

Build and deploy smart contracts using Gno.land

Maintain and optimize existing Smart Contract integrations

Participate in release cycles, upgrades and migration (contracts, API, infra)

Hands on experience with smart contracts development

Design, develop and implement new smart contract features (token launches, vesting, DAO or asset flows depending on the roadmap)

Hands on experience with smart contract and blockchain protocols, execution layers or runtimes

Understanding of security audits and common smart contract vulnerabilities

Engineering Leadership — leading the core protocol team, GnoVM, tooling, Go/Gno development, and owning the technical roadmap pre/post-launch

Cross-Functional Leadership — bridging engineering with marketing, community, and business development

Product Vision & Strategy — retail adoption focus, translating product vision into a compelling value prop, owning the product roadmap end-to-end

Experience designing/working with smart contracts with observability in mind, ensuring proper event (render) emission and state structure for seamless indexing and on-chain data analysis

6+ years of operating distributed systems at scale, ideally at companies where uptime was existential: big tech, HFT, exchanges, or blockchain infrastructure

Deep understanding of blockchain fundamentals, theoretical concepts, consensus mechanisms and smart contracts

Understanding of wallets, transactions, gas optimization and on chain events

Familiarity with distributed systems, blockchain fundamentals or event driven architecture

Hands-on experience in Open-Source contributions to systems level or blockchain infrastructure projects

Ability to write clean, maintainable and testable codes

Familiarity with cross-chain interoperability standards and integrating off-chain infrastructure (e.g., oracles, custom indexers, and subgraphs) to support product features

High impact Web3 experience

Excellent communication skills in Business English (spoken and written)

Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving requirements

Strong ownership mindset : you build it, you help run it

Product oriented thinking – understands why a feature exists, not just how

Prior experience with launching, token ecosystems and creator platforms

Strong product judgement and strategic thinking with the ability to make product and engineering decisions that balance user needs with business goals

Strong leadership, communication and cross functional collaboration skills

Eagerness to learn Gno.land

Qualification

Smart contract developmentBlockchain protocolsConsensus mechanismsDistributed systemsGas optimizationSecurity auditsCross-chain interoperabilityOpen-source contributionsPerformance profilingGo programmingProduct roadmap management

Required

Experienced Blockchain Product and Engineering Lead

Expertise in architecting upgradeable smart contract and managing complex state migrations in live production environments without service disruption