Backend Engineer – Solana

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Veda

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $18M Series A on 2025-06

Crypto • Fintech • SaaS

Veda is an on‑chain yield infrastructure provider for modern finance. It offers an Enterprise Earn Stack (Veda Console, vaults and integrations) that lets fintechs, exchanges and wallets embed decentralized finance (DeFi) yield products into their platforms. Customers and partners referenced include Kraken, MetaMask, Etherfi and others; Veda advertises powering stablecoin and token yield products, migrations of assets across chains with zero user action, security audits and developer docs to build with its vaults.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain Solana programs and backend services powering Veda’s DeFi products • Own features end to end, from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement • Integrate third-party DeFi protocols and infrastructure, evaluating technical and economic risks and maintaining integrations as external systems evolve • Build reliable APIs, data pipelines, SDKs, and internal tools connecting on-chain functionality with user-facing products and operational workflows • Design for security and financial correctness, including trust boundaries, safe state transitions, access control, precision, reconciliation, and recovery from partial failures • Improve scalability, reliability, performance, and developer experience of the Solana platform • Develop automated tests, participate in security reviews and audits, and drive findings through remediation and production verification • Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and external partners while documenting technical decisions and operational procedures • Expand capabilities, strengthen reliability and security, and make the platform easier to extend as Veda grows

🎯 Requirements

• Strong professional experience with Rust and ability to reason about security-critical systems code • Deep knowledge of Solana and the SVM, including account model, transaction lifecycle, token standards, performance constraints, and common security considerations • Experience building Solana programs and backend services or SDKs that configure, invoke, index, or operate them • Experience designing and operating production APIs and distributed services in Python or TypeScript • Strong DeFi fundamentals, including vaults, lending, trading, liquidity, fees, pricing, and cross-chain systems • Security mindset and experience building systems that handle real money • Strong testing practices across unit, integration, and end-to-end environments, including real external dependencies • High agency and clear communication • Production experience with Anchor, native Solana development, and the Solana token ecosystem • Track record of deploying, auditing, or maintaining smart contracts securing meaningful value • Experience integrating major Solana DeFi protocols or building vault, lending, trading, staking, or bridge products • Knowledge of EVM smart contracts or cross-chain systems • Experience with secure key management, multisig or custody workflows, and institutional blockchain infrastructure • Experience with cloud-native services, event-driven systems, containers, deployment pipelines, and production observability • Contributions to open-source blockchain infrastructure or comfort using modern agentic development tools without weakening engineering judgment

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus equity • Meaningful equity in a Series A company • Remote work arrangement • Opportunity to work with a collaborative, ownership-focused 35-person team • Work close to product and protocol design • Exposure to production DeFi infrastructure supporting billions in TVL

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