What you’ll do

📍Develop Solana smart contracts: Build efficient smart contracts in Rust that handle millions of dollars in transactions per day. 📍Innovate with DeFi Mechanisms: Develop novel smart contract features that align with Orca’s goals and build user-friendly decentralized applications. 📍Security and Auditing: Ensure the security and integrity of smart contracts by implementing best practices for security, writing unit tests, and working with auditors. 📍Stay Current: Keep up with the latest advancements in Solana and smart contract development, continuously learning and applying new techniques to improve our platform. 📍Optimize and Maintain Contracts: Continuously improve and optimize smart contracts for performance, reliability, and scalability.

What you’ll bring

📍In-depth Knowledge of Solana Stack: Strong experience developing in Rust or similar languages, particularly for smart contract development. 📍API/SDK Expertise: Deploying and exporting smart contracts into a SDK w/ proper testing. Knowledge of AMM protocols is preferrable. 📍Proven track record: You’ve worked on performant, user-facing features at scale and have experience deploying smart contracts with a strong grasp of contract security best practices and design patterns. 📍Balanced mindset: You’re comfortable working independently in an async environment, but also enjoy coming together to collaborate as a team. You’re passionate about certain technologies and patterns, but also recognize there are trade-offs in different scenarios. You don’t see everything in absolutes, and identify the underlying dimensions to make decisions. 📍Passion for DeFi: You are excited to build on Solana, take ownership, and win together