Backend & Blockchain Engineer
📍 Benin City, Nigeria
Backend and blockchain engineer with 5+ years of experience architecting high-throughput distributed systems across 45+ blockchain networks. Specialized in building production-grade indexing infrastructure, multi-chain explorers, and DeFi protocols. Deep expertise in Cosmos SDK, Go, and cross-chain architecture with proven contributions to DefiLlama and Shentu.
Salary
USD 60,000 – 85,000
BITSZN
Apr 2024 — Aug 2025
Engineered high-performance blockchain parsers in Go, indexing millions of on-chain transactions across 45+ Cosmos chains. Deployed and operated 45+ production chain explorers on valopers.com. Built Celestia mainnet/testnet monitoring dashboard with Prometheus-based alerting and developed automated Telegram bots for Cosmos price feeds.
RAZOR DAO
Nov 2023 — Nov 2025
Architected backend infrastructure for the first decentralized exchange on Movement Chain, including native wallet services and blockchain indexers. Built Kafka-based event-driven architecture to process blockchain events. Designed a unified GraphQL API layer integrating CoinGecko, Sentio SDK, and DefiLlama for real-time market data aggregation.
CYPHER CORE LLC
Nov 2022 — Nov 2023
Spearheaded Re Protocol development using Cosmos SDK and Interchain Security, implementing FIX Protocol bridge for traditional financial messaging interoperability. Built decentralized identity modules and CLI tooling for FIX message encoding/decoding. Mentored junior engineers through structured code reviews.
CYPHER CORE LLC
Apr 2022 — Nov 2022
Led development of Coris Explorer, a Cosmos ecosystem block explorer with Redis caching layer. Integrated CosmJS for on-chain data retrieval and containerized all services with Docker.
CertiK (now Shentu)
Oct 2021 — Mar 2022
Developed unit and simulation tests for Shentu chain modules (Node, API, CLI), contributing directly to chain security and stability.
MSc · Computer Science
2025 – 2027
Software Engineering
2020 – 2020
BSc · Quantity Surveying
2015 – 2020