Solana Smart Contract Engineer

Summary

Join Ondo Finance, a leading blockchain-enabled investment firm, as a Solana Smart Contract Engineer. You will architect, build, and deploy smart contracts for tokenized real-world assets on the Solana blockchain. Collaborate with a high-caliber team across engineering, product, and strategy to ensure contract design aligns with regulatory and product goals. Bring Solana engineering best practices to the team, focusing on code quality, security, and maintainability. Help Ondo establish a leadership position within the Solana development ecosystem. This role is ideal for a U.S.-based engineer with a proven history of engineering excellence who thrives in lean, high-impact environments.

Requirements

• Based in the United States, but open to remote
• Demonstrated experience deploying production-grade Solana smart contracts
• Deep understanding of Rust, Anchor, and the SVM
• Ability to work independently, manage project complexity, and own features end-to-end
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship robust, secure, and gas-efficient smart contracts on Solana
• Successfully deploy Solana-based protocols that interact with tokenized real-world assets
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure contract design aligns with regulatory and product goals
• Bring Solana engineering best practices to the team and raise the bar on code quality, security, and maintainability
• Help Ondo establish a leadership position within the Solana development ecosystem
• Design, build, and maintain smart contracts in Rust using Solana's SVM architecture
• Own technical design decisions and lead implementation for Solana-related features and protocols
• Contribute to protocol architecture and application-layer integrations across chains
• Work closely with security auditors to ensure contract safety and compliance
• Develop internal tooling to support testing, simulation, and deployment pipelines for smart contracts
• Collaborate with product, legal, and operations to align technical implementation with strategic goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to open-source Solana projects or DeFi protocols
• Familiarity with multi-chain interoperability and bridging
• Understanding of DeFi primitives like liquidity pools, staking, governance, etc
• Prior work with real-world asset tokenization or regulatory-compliant smart contracts
• Exposure to TypeScript and front-end contract integration tooling

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — we're well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation
• Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO)
• Small remote-first team across many countries — you'll be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices
• A+ colleagues — our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap
• Best-in-class investors — we are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures