Senior Rust​/Solana Smart Contract Engineer; Production-Level

Position: Senior Rust / Solana Smart Contract Engineer (Production-Level)
We’re building high-performance on-chain infrastructure on Solana — and we’re looking for a  top-tier Rust engineer  who has already shipped production smart contracts.

What You’ll Do

Design, build, and deploy  production-grade Solana programs (SVM)

Optimize for  performance, compute efficiency, and security

Write clean, auditable Rust with long-term maintainability in mind

Lead contract design decisions from first principles

Work closely with backend + frontend engineers to ship fully integrated systems

Review, refactor, and harden existing contracts

Prepare codebases for external audits

You Must Have

Deep expertise in  Rust

Strong experience with  Solana (Anchor + native programs)

Shipped at least  one production protocol or smart contract system

Experience handling:

PDAs

CPI calls

Account serialization

Compute optimization

Security patterns

Solid understanding of:

DeFi mechanics

Experience debugging mainnet issues under pressure

Bonus Points

Built or contributed to:

DEXs

Perps protocols

MEV-aware systems

High-frequency trading infra

Experience with security audits

Knowledge of validator architecture / RPC optimization

Performance tuning at the byte level

What We Care About

You think from  first principles

You optimize for  speed + security

You’ve seen what fails in production

You move fast without breaking core logic

You want to build category-defining infrastructure

High-performance startup

Remote, async, execution-driven

Small team, high ownership

Direct impact on core protocol architecture

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