Senior Smart Contract Engineer (SVM)

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.

The OpportunityEllipsis Labs is seeking an SVM Smart Contract Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain critical smart contracts for the SVM, along with the appropriate monitoring systems

Qualifications

Required

• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining SVM smart contracts in production, with and without Anchor

• Experience working with auditors

• Deep understanding of Solana and low-level SVM concepts

• A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude

• Passion for decentralized finance

Preferred

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS

• Experience in quant trading or DeFi