Senior Smart Contract Engineer (Rust, Solana)
Hedgehog Markets
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See open jobs at Hedgehog Markets.See open jobs similar to "Senior Smart Contract Engineer (Rust, Solana)" Solana Network Opportunities.The Hedgehog Markets team is hiring a senior smart-contract engineer. Your responsibilities will include implementing state-of-the-art smart contracts, ensuring security best practices, and crafting modular design to ensure extensibility. As an ideal candidate, you are comfortable with Rust and have experience in building on Solana.
ABOUT Hedgehog Markets is the first prediction market platform on Solana. Hedgehog’s vision to offer the most user-centric prediction market platform permeates all aspects of our development. We chose to build Hedgehog on Solana because of its speed and low network fees. We believe that this provides a strong foundation for our entire user experience. The Hedgehog team is a collective of DeFi power users who obsess over experience and who also believe it’s time for prediction markets to shine — especially prediction markets with more liquidity, more intuitive UX, and more interesting and ubiquitous markets. We are also working on new primitives and market types that are made possible by the speed and low fees of Solana. Hedgehog Markets is currently live on Solana Devnet at https://hedgehog.markets.
RESPONSIBILITIES You will work closely with Hedgehog Markets’ founder to help architect and implement the mainnet product on Solana. You will also work closely with a team of talented and experienced engineers.
As an ideal candidate, you have previously worked on open-source production grade software, with particular experience in building smart contracts on Solana’s blockchain. You are excited about decentralized environments and are eager to contribute substantially to implementation. You also have experience building and launching a product from scratch and understand the complexities of a production-grade consumer product.
You will be joining an ambitious team with deep expertise in blockchain protocols, security, and cryptography. There will be a steep learning curve, and we will expect you to stay up-to-date with technological developments. You will also be encouraged to apply your ideas to product designs.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Write state-of-the-art smart contracts on Solana
- Ensure that dapps are tested thoroughly via e2e tests
- Work in close collaboration with the team on product architecture and design
- Develop new strategies for users to interact with the platform
WHAT YOU BRING
- Senior-level smart contract development experience
- Familiarity with databases and full-stack frameworks
- Expertise in Rust, Solana, and smart contract design on the Solana blockchain
- Strong desire to build decentralized and open source software
- Passion for learning new technology and tackling novel technical problems
- Excellent English communication skills
"NICE-TO-HAVE"
- General knowledge of DeFi protocols
- Experience using DeFi products (Uniswap, Compound, etc.)
- Existing contributions to open-source software products
- Higher degrees in Computer Science or equivalent
WHY US
- Competitive salary with upside potential
- Fully remote position; the team is also fully remote & globally distributed
- Access to teams and individuals working on ideas at the cutting edge of the industry
- Support from and access to experts in engineering, design, cryptography, tokenomics, strategy
Learn more at our website (https://hedgehog.markets) and check out our medium article on decentralized prediction markets (https://bit.ly/3cOSggn). See below for links with more information:
Website: https://hedgehog.markets Medium: https://hedgehog-markets.medium.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HedgehogMarket (@HedgehogMarket) Discord: http://discord.gg/vt8Dw5SN58 Telegram: https://t.me/hedgehogmarkets
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