Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jito Labs builds the Market Layer of Solana, providing infrastructure for on-chain markets. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help develop JTX, a next-generation trading app that focuses on delivering a fast and intuitive trading experience for on-chain traders.
Responsibilities
- Design and build core systems for our new product from scratch
- Build low-latency, high-reliability services that interact directly with Solana's transaction and block building pipeline
- Own critical infrastructure: order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management
- Implement security at every layer, from transaction signing to user data protection
- Work closely with the product and infrastructure teams to ship fast and iterate based on real user feedback
- Make significant architectural decisions as an early member of the team
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on distributed systems
- Strong systems programming skills. Rust preferred, but deep experience in C/C++, Go, or similar is fine
- Track record building reliable, low-latency systems in production
- Security-first mindset. You think about attack surfaces, key management, and failure modes before writing code
- Comfortable operating with high autonomy and incomplete information. This is a 0-to-1 product, not a mature codebase
- Familiarity with Solana's runtime, transaction lifecycle, and market microstructure (MEV, block building, execution quality) is a strong plus
- Experience in trading systems or exchange infrastructure
- Experience in DeFi protocol engineering
- Experience in fintech backend systems (payments, custody, execution)
- Experience in high-frequency or low-latency systems
- Experience in security engineering
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Significant equity
- Opportunity to work on problems that matter
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