Full-Stack/Back-end Rust Engineer

About Jet Protocol

Jet is a liquidity protocol pushing the envelope on debt capital markets efficiency and decentralization. We offer first class market based lending products built for the emerging DeFi high flyers. Our bleeding edge on-chain products connect flight operations between crypto-native traders and permissioned institutional players. Our flight crew consists of veteran pilots with tens of thousands of long-haul flying hours at blue-chip DeFi, TradFi, and Big Tech firms.

If you are interested in re-imagining finance and empowering the world to own their own future, come join us on our journey!

Job Summary

Develop and maintain the core Rust codebase and testing suite. Use knowledge of market structures to contribute to business requirements and translate them into actionable code. Surface interesting code patterns with the goal of creating better lending products. Demonstrate ability to handle inter-protocol integrations. Think about how the work we’re doing fits into the greater DeFi ecosystem.

The optimal candidate understands the adversarial nature of markets, has an interest in decentralized finance systems, and a proficiency in software engineering. Neither markets nor crypto experience is required, though we would like for the candidate to be able to articulate thoughtful arguments for a relevant concept. Demonstrated Rust proficiency is required.

Solana is an emerging chain, it’s dev infrastructure is not yet as mature as Ethereum’s, and as such, we anticipate troubleshooting and debugging will occupy more time than usual, and are looking for a candidate who can manage that and also know when to ask for help.

For senior roles, we have the additional expectation that the candidate can delegate and manage their team’s time effectively in a remote, autonomous work environment.

Tech preferences, in order of importance

• Demonstrated ability to write Rust code.
• General Typescript and Python proficiency.
• DeFi / blockchain experience.

Other considerations

• Comfortable working in an emerging dev ecosystem.
• Open to any timezone, with ability to work around EST centric operations.
• Daily standups, but team members can optimize meetings how they see fit.
• Willingness to opine and offer ad hoc support to the community, time permitting.