Founding Smart Contract Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio
About This Role
Dragonfly is actively sourcing for a Founding Smart Contract Engineer (Solana/SVM) to join a small, well-capitalized team building stablecoin infrastructure. In this role, you'd be the person the rest of the company looks to on anything blockchain, with a real voice on product and on who gets hired next.
What You'll Be Doing
Design and implement core integrations with Solana DeFi protocols and embedded wallets
Build out the cross-chain messaging layer, evaluating, integrating, and extending leading protocols
Own development of protocol contracts end to end
Drive the external audit process and design ongoing monitoring and incident response for live contracts
Make architectural calls on upgradeability, key management, pause/recovery flows, and economic safety
Work with EVM chains as required
What We're Looking For
Experience writing, deploying, and maintaining smart contracts that real users have interacted with on mainnet
Exceptionally strong Rust development skills, including storage layout, gas, reentrancy, upgrade patterns, and failure modes of SVM tooling
Working Solidity experience
Experience building systems where smart contracts coordinate with an off-chain system of record, covering atomicity, idempotency, and recovery paths
A security-first mindset by default: thinking in terms of invariants, threat models, and worst-case adversarial scenarios
Expertise with Anchor, Solana CLI, LiteSVM, Bankrun, and the modern Rust testing and fuzzing stack
Why Join Us
Compensation for mid-level candidates ranges from $150,000–$200,000 plus meaningful equity; for senior candidates, $200,000–$250,000 plus meaningful equity. The range reflects variation by seniority, location, and hiring company, with final compensation confirmed by the specific hiring company.
Salary Range
USD 150,000 - 250,000 per year
Ready to Apply?
To submit your application for this position, please visit Dragonfly's official website and follow their application process.