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About Veda
Veda builds vault infrastructure for DeFi at scale. We manage billions total value locked across 15+ blockchain networks, powering yield strategies for partners including Kraken, Etherfi, and Plasma. Our protocol turns complex multi-chain DeFi positions into simple vault interfaces that institutional and retail users can actually trust.

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be a key design partner in our next-generation platform infrastructure. You’ll own the systems architecture that sits behind billions in assets, event indexing, data pipelines, risk engines, multi-chain orchestration, the infrastructure that has to be right because real money depends on it.

You won’t be handed a spec. You’ll look at what we have, understand where we’re going, and figure out what needs to be built, rebuilt, or thrown away. Then you’ll build it.

About the Role
As a Backend Engineer focused on Solana, you will help build secure DeFi products across on-chain programs and the backend systems that support them. You will work on protocol integrations, transaction infrastructure, product APIs, and production operations. This is a hands-on role combining smart contract engineering, backend development, and applied security for systems that manage real assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain Solana programs and backend services that power 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 those integrations as external systems evolve.
• Build reliable APIs, data pipelines, SDKs, and internal tools that connect on-chain functionality with user-facing products and operational workflows.
• Design for security and financial correctness, including clear trust boundaries, safe state transitions, access control, precision, reconciliation, and recovery from partial failures.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and developer experience of our Solana platform.
• Develop comprehensive automated tests, participate in security reviews and audits, and drive findings through remediation and production verification.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, research, and external partners while documenting important technical decisions and operational procedures.

Requirements:

• Strong professional experience with Rust and the ability to reason about security-critical systems code.
• Deep knowledge of Solana and the SVM, including its account model, transaction lifecycle, token standards, performance constraints, and common security considerations.
• Experience building Solana programs and the backend services or SDKs that configure, invoke, index, or operate them.
• Experience designing and operating production APIs and distributed services in a language such as Python or TypeScript.
• Strong DeFi fundamentals, including vaults, lending, trading, liquidity, fees, pricing, and cross-chain systems.
• A security mindset and experience building systems that handle real money, with careful attention to correctness, auditability, and incident response.
• Strong testing practices across unit, integration, and end-to-end environments, including working with real external dependencies.
• High agency and clear communication. You can turn an ambiguous problem into a reviewed design, incremental implementation, production rollout, and durable handoff.

Even better if:

• Production experience with Anchor, native Solana development, and the Solana token ecosystem.
• A track record of deploying, auditing, or maintaining smart contracts that secure meaningful value.
• Experience integrating with 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.

WHAT YOU’LL WALK INTO
We’re a 35-person team that’s raised $18M at Series A. The infrastructure works, it’s running in production handling billions in TVL, but it was built for the company we were, not the company we’re becoming. We’re transitioning from founder-dependent operations to scalable engineering practices. You’ll be a key part of making that real.

Current stack includes AWS, Python, Rust, microservices architecture, and smart contracts across 15+ EVM and non-EVM chains. We’re actively investing in Infrastructure as Code, containerization, CI/CD, and proper oncall rotations.

COMPENSATION
Competitive base salary plus equity. We’re a Series A company heading toward Series B — early enough that your equity is meaningful, late enough that the business is real.

We’re not building a prototype. We’re running production infrastructure that manages billions of dollars across dozens of blockchain networks for some of the biggest names in crypto. We need someone who knows how to make that kind of system reliable, scalable, and operable — and who can bring the rest of the team along while doing it.