Staff Solana Program Engineer ($300 - $500k salary)

You'll design, build, and maintain on-chain programs that operate under heavy real-world load. This is a hands-on role with real ownership and immediate impact.

- Design and implement high-performance Solana programs in Rust that handle significant transaction volume

- Reason carefully about program correctness, security, and upgradeability in a production environment

- Optimise compute usage, account layouts, and transaction flows for latency and throughput

- Work closely with backend and frontend engineers to design clean on-chain / off-chain boundaries

- Debug, test, and ship changes that go live quickly and are used by hundreds of thousands of users

- Participate in design discussions around protocol changes, economic mechanics, and system constraints

- Own programs end to end: from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration

- Highly experienced engineer who has deployed production smart contracts or on-chain programs that operate at meaningful scale, with real users, sustained volume, and operational constraints

- Understand that building at scale is different from deploying isolated contracts - you've dealt with performance bottlenecks, edge cases, and real-world failure modes

- Thoughtful about security, adversarial environments, and long-term maintainability

- Able to work independently, take ownership, and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information