[Hiring] Backend Engineer @Veda Tech Labs Inc

Role Description

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. This is a hands-on role combining smart contract engineering, backend development, and applied security for systems that manage real assets.

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus equity.
• Early enough that your equity is meaningful, late enough that the business is real.
• Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.