Ellipsis Labs

Senior Smart Contract Engineer (SVM)

Engineering

Employment

Full-time

From the employer

FullTime

Level

Senior

Team

Engineering / Engineering

Not doable from Austria

Country assessment

Not doable from Austria because the employer's own board marks it as not remote.

Our assessment is guidance. Confirm arrangements with the employer.

Skills mentioned in this posting

AWS

Job description

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.

The Opportunity

Ellipsis Labs is seeking an SVM Smart Contract Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will:

Develop and maintain critical smart contracts for the SVM, along with the appropriate monitoring systems

Qualifications

Required

Experience building, deploying, and maintaining SVM smart contracts in production, with and without Anchor
Experience working with auditors
Deep understanding of Solana and low-level SVM concepts
A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
Passion for decentralized finance

Preferred

Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Experience in quant trading or DeFi