[Hiring] Solana Protocol Engineer @Perena

Role Description

What You’ll do:

• Design flow-of-funds orchestration across venues and chains — bridging, routing, rebalancing between custodial and non-custodial systems — with reliable settlement, reconciliation, and failure handling as first-class concerns.
• Develop custody and key management patterns that meet institutional-grade security requirements across custodial and non-custodial environments.
• Build on-chain settlement and payment flows, including integrations with DEXs, lending markets, custodians, and bridge infrastructure — starting on Solana (Rust) and extending across EVM and other chains as we scale.
• Build and maintain the systems that move Perena's money: minting/redeeming USD*, allocating collateral, and routing capital between on-chain protocols, centralized custodians/exchanges, and partner bank rails.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building financial systems where correctness and settlement guarantees are non-negotiable — payment rails, custody/settlement infrastructure, or trading systems.
• Direct experience building payment rails, stablecoin infrastructure, or institutional custody/settlement systems — ideally at places like Bridge, BVNK, Fireblocks, a fund, a market maker, or an exchange/custodian.
• Experience as a protocol/systems dev at a market maker, prop shop, custodian, or crypto exchange is a strong signal.
• Proven track record orchestrating flow of funds across multiple venues — moving real money between on-chain and off-chain systems with attention to reconciliation, settlement, and failure modes.
• Working knowledge of on-chain development (Solana Rust/Anchor or EVM Solidity), or clear ability to ramp fast — you don't need to be a Solana perf specialist, but you should reason fluently about how funds move on-chain.
• Experience with secure key management, multisig, or MPC custody architectures.
• Familiarity with DeFi primitives (AMMs, lending protocols, vaults) and how yield strategies are structured and executed.
• Strong security instinct: you think in attack vectors and have worked through audit processes.
• Comfort in fast-moving, high-stakes environments.
• Earlier in your career? Apply anyway if you can show real campaign ownership, sharp writing, and a clear point of view on the market.

Benefits

• Stablecoins are transforming how the world stores, moves, and grows value — and we’re still early.
• This is a once-in-a-generation shift: from legacy money to programmable, accessible, internet-native finance.
• We own our future — we trust each other to take initiative. Voices are heard and outcomes matter.
• We treat our work as craft — thoughtful, opinionated, and precise. Many of us come from design, art, or cultural backgrounds.
• We think from first principles — Perena is a reimagining of financial infrastructure. That starts with reimagining how we build.
• We work in public — we value clarity, writing, and sharing progress openly within the team and with our community.