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Lead Engineer owning Frontier Traders, Solana Foundation’s platform for trader rewards, leaderboards, and market activity. Building accurate, realtime data pipelines and trader-facing experiences across the Solana ecosystem.
Responsibilities:
- Own the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of Frontier Traders
- Build and scale pipelines attributing spot and perpetuals volume across Solana venues
- Normalize fills, wallets, and accounts into trusted trading activity data
- Design and operate rewards engines for campaigns, points, prize pools, and leaderboards
- Build and maintain VIP tiers, rolling maker/taker volume windows, tier progression, and rebate calculations
- Ship accurate, responsive realtime experiences including activity feeds, leaderboards, and tier progression
- Own integrations with DEXs, perpetuals venues, launchpads, wallets, and data providers
- Work directly with traders, firms, and market makers to turn feedback into product
- Set standards for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, and incident response
- Make build-versus-integrate decisions and manage technical debt
- Partner with design, product, Trading, and Growth teams on product direction
Requirements:
- Track record of building and shipping products end to end, with clear personal ownership of what you built
- Strong engineering fundamentals across the stack
- Technical proficiency in Rust and other performant programming languages
- Experience with high-volume data pipelines, indexing, or realtime systems where accuracy and latency matter
- Experience building financial or transactional products where errors have real consequences
- Working knowledge of Solana accounts, transactions, program interactions, and reliable off-chain data retrieval
- Familiarity with DeFi market structure, including spot and perpetuals venues, AMMs, order books, maker/taker dynamics, fees, and rebates
- Strong product instincts and willingness to hold opinions about user experience
- Comfort operating with ambiguity, limited process, and evolving priorities
- Excellent communication and ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and work with demanding external users
- Bonus: Experience building for traders, market makers, or HFT firms
- Bonus: Experience with points, rewards, loyalty, or incentive systems at scale
- Bonus: Hands-on experience with Solana data infrastructure such as Helius, Pyth, Geyser plugins, or custom indexers
- Bonus: Open source contributions to Solana or DeFi tooling
- Bonus: Personal onchain trading experience
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