Lead Smart Contract Engineer - Solana - ZipRecruiter - Los Angeles, CA
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Blockchain is eating the world of financial services and payments. Over the next 10 years, money, payments, and banking will move to blockchain-based networks.
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We’re accelerating this transition. We’re building a global financial ecosystem enabled by this technology. One that advances financial access and opportunity, and reduces costs around sending and receiving money. We started with our flagship stablecoin, AUSD, as an SPL Token, and are building across the infrastructure and application layers to change the way the world transfers value.
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Our team has deep roots in this space, and we’re looking for people who share in our mission to create a more inclusive and effective financial system. Come join us.
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The Role
As our first Lead Smart Contract Engineer, you’ll architect, implement, and own the lifecycle of the Solana programs that power our next- on-chain products. You’ll partner closely with the CTO and mentor junior developers while driving both greenfield protocol launches and iterative upgrades of production programs.
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What You’ll Do
Design architect Solana programs and their on-chain account structures from ideation to mainnet.
Implement test high-performance programs in Rust using the Anchor framework.
Own deployments across Solana clusters (mainnet-beta, devnet, testnet) and manage the program lifecycle.
Maintain upgrade existing programs: oversee Solana\'s upgradeability, manage Program Derived Addresses (PDAs), and ensure stable account data layouts across versions.
Harden security: write comprehensive unit and integration tests, run static analyzers, coordinate external audits, and remediate findings.
Collaborate daily with frontend and product to ship end-to-end DeFi features on Solana.
Mentor lead: set best practices for junior Rust/Anchor engineers and help shape our on-chain architecture roadmap.
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Who You Are
5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 2+ years of hands-on experience