Orca’s mission is to become the leading provider of financial primitives on Solana. Orca sees a future where a meaningful percentage of the world’s financial transactions is powered by CLAMMs and other Decentralized Finance (DeFi) products. Orca’s looking to add another senior software engineer to accelerate our progress towards that vision.

As a team of senior engineers, Orca’s contributors are comfortable working around the stack but tend to be experts in a particular area. Orca is looking for a like-minded generalist who can specialize in building out our backend services and infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

• Design and Implement Scalable Servers in Rust: Build high-performance servers deployed on AWS that interface with the Solana network and Orca's web application.
• Develop Data Processing Pipelines: Create systems for processing blockchain data, focusing on reliability and latency.
• Advance Application Features: Leverage these servers to develop key application features such as real-time monitoring, automated transaction execution, and token balance analytics.
• Manage Database Interactions: Handle data storage and management using PostgreSQL, ensuring data integrity and efficient retrieval.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven Track Record: You’ve worked on performant services at scale, ideally in finance or adjacent industries. You have a strong ability to analyze complex software systems, reason about them with clarity, and solve problems efficiently.
• Educational Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field from a recognized university.
• Balanced Mindset: Comfortable working independently in an async environment, but also enjoy coming together to collaborate as a team. Passionate about certain technologies and patterns, but recognize their trade-offs in different scenarios.
• Technical Skills: Experience with Rust is a plus but not required. Strong interest and proficiency in building high performance backend systems.
• Understanding of DeFi: You have a good understanding of how AMMs work and the Solana ecosystem. You are a user of DeFi apps on Solana or other chains.

What we offer

• Salary: 160,000 - 200,000 USDC (Range for US Employees)
• Token allocation: 50,000 - 100,000 ORCA over 4 years (Range for US Employees)
• Flexible work schedule.
• Home office stipend.
• Wellness stipend.
• Option to work remotely or from our office in New York City.
• Paid subscriptions to GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other tools that make you more productive.

Our stack

• Rust, PostgreSQL, Timescale
• Node.js, Typescript
• Solana's Geyser plugin, Yellowstone gRPC
• Solana smart contracts written in Rust using Anchor
• AWS ECS and docker to streamline deployments to staging, canary, and production
• GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack

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