Backend Engineer – Solana

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain Solana programs and backend services that drive Veda’s DeFi offerings.

• Take full responsibility for features from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

• Integrate third-party DeFi protocols and infrastructure, assessing technical and economic risks while adapting to changes in external systems.

• Create dependable APIs, data pipelines, SDKs, and internal tools that link on-chain functionalities with user-facing products and operational processes.

• Ensure security and financial accuracy through design practices that cover trust boundaries, safe state transitions, access control, precision, reconciliation, and recovery from partial failures.

• Enhance the scalability, reliability, performance, and developer experience of the Solana platform.

• Develop automated tests, engage in security reviews and audits, and advocate for remediation and verification in production.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and external partners while documenting technical decisions and operational procedures.

• Broaden capabilities, bolster reliability and security, and simplify platform extensions as Veda expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• In-depth professional experience with Rust and an ability to analyze security-critical systems code.

• Extensive knowledge of Solana and the SVM, including account models, transaction lifecycles, token standards, performance constraints, and prevalent security considerations.

• Experience in building Solana programs and backend services or SDKs that configure, invoke, index, or operate them.

• Proficient in designing and managing production APIs and distributed services using Python or TypeScript.

• Strong foundational knowledge in DeFi, encompassing vaults, lending, trading, liquidity, fees, pricing, and cross-chain systems.

• A security-focused mindset with experience in constructing systems that manage real money.

• Robust testing practices across unit, integration, and end-to-end environments, including real external dependencies.

• High level of agency and effective communication skills.

• Practical experience with Anchor, native Solana development, and the Solana token ecosystem.

• Proven history of deploying, auditing, or maintaining smart contracts that secure significant value.

• Experience with major Solana DeFi protocols or constructing vault, lending, trading, staking, or bridge products.

• Familiarity with EVM smart contracts or cross-chain systems.

• Experience in secure key management, multisig or custody workflows, and institutional blockchain infrastructure.

• Familiarity with cloud-native services, event-driven systems, containers, deployment pipelines, and production observability.

• Contributions to open-source blockchain infrastructure or comfort in using modern development tools while maintaining engineering judgment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary along with equity options.

• Significant equity in a Series A company.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a 35-person team that values ownership.

• Close involvement in product and protocol design.

• Exposure to production DeFi infrastructure supporting billions in Total Value Locked (TVL).