Solana Smart Contract Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote (U.S. Based)
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences)

Ondo Finance is seeking an outstanding Solana Smart Contract Engineer to architect, build, and deploy smart contracts for tokenized real-world assets on the Solana blockchain. This role is for a U.S.-based engineer who thrives in lean, high-impact environments and has a proven history of engineering excellence.

Target Outcomes

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

Nice to Haves

• 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.

About the Company

Ondo Finance's mission is to provide institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services. We have both a technology arm that develops decentralized finance technology, and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized funds. We were the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries and have since expanded into several other assets. We are also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.

Founded by former Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team members, Ondo Finance is backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, and Tiger Global. We are currently the leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well-capitalized to continue growing the firm. We are a fully remote company with team members across the U.S.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity.
• Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and a flexible vacation policy (PTO).
• A small, remote-first team with members across many countries. You'll be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
• A-list colleagues, including alumni from Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, and Uniswap.
• Best-in-class investors, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund, and Coinbase Ventures.