3 days ago
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core integrations with Solana DeFi protocols and embedded wallets.
- Build, evaluate, integrate, and extend cross-chain messaging protocols.
- Own protocol contract development end to end.
- Drive the external audit process for live contracts.
- Design ongoing monitoring and incident response for live contracts.
- Make architectural decisions about upgradeability, key management, pause and recovery flows, and economic safety.
- Work with EVM chains as required.
- Coordinate smart contracts with off-chain systems of record, including atomicity, idempotency, and recovery paths.
Requirements
- Experience writing, deploying, and maintaining smart contracts that real users have interacted with on mainnet.
- Exceptional Rust development skills, including storage layout, gas, reentrancy, upgrade patterns, and SVM tooling failure modes.
- Working experience with Solidity.
- Experience building systems in which smart contracts coordinate with an off-chain system of record.
- A security-focused approach involving invariants, threat modeling, and adversarial analysis.
- Expertise with Anchor, Solana CLI, LiteSVM, Bankrun, and the modern Rust testing and fuzzing stack.
- Relevant experience in Solana, smart contracts, or crypto infrastructure is welcomed even if every listed qualification is not met.
Benefits
- NYC is the priority location; exceptional candidates in San Francisco or remote across the USA may be considered.
- Meaningful equity is included.
- The role is sourced through Dragonfly's talent network and candidates may be confidentially matched with portfolio companies; compensation and hiring details are confirmed with the specific hiring company.
About Dragonfly
DragonFly (dragonflymax.com) builds a cloud platform used by K–12 and scholastic athletic programs to manage eligibility, digital forms, compliance workflows, rosters, scheduling, communications, and payments. It provides athletic trainers tools for documenting injuries and care, and gives administrators centralized oversight across teams and seasons. The company sells its software as a subscription to schools, districts, and state associations, with integrated services for collections and reporting.