Senior Protocol Engineer
Hylo
Estimated Salary: $75K-$125K
Location: United States
Hylo is seeking a highly motivated Senior Protocol Engineer to join our team on a contract basis. Subject to your performance and the company's fundraising milestones, this role may transition to a Founding Engineer position.
To be successful in this role
You will be:
Building Hylo's core protocol in Rust (Anchor/Solana)
Developing SDKs in Typescript
Deploying microservices and bots to support protocol operations
Validating Hylo's protocol and dApp with integration tests
You ideally have:
5+ years professional software development experience
Prior work on DeFi protocols or other financial applications
Proficiency with Rust and Typescript
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bonus points:
Experience with SDK development and integration testing techniques
Familiarity with Anchor/Solana programming framework
History of open source or hackathons in Solana or other ecosystems
About Hylo
Hylo is building DeFi Native Money on Solana. We are a team of seasoned DeFi builders with a crypto-native company culture.
We recently won a top prize in the Colosseum Radar Hackathon and are a member of Colosseum's accelerator.
Hylo's core protocol splits liquid staking tokens into yield and volatility derivatives, simultaneously enabling a high-yield stablecoin and a 2-4x leveraged long on SOL without liquidation risk. Learn more in our whitepaper.
Our founding team is based in the United States and Portugal. We previously founded one of the first decentralized exchanges on Solana, and our CTO has spent over a decade leading engineering teams at marquee Silicon Valley tech companies.
Logistical Requirements
Verifiable government ID for KYC check
References to previous projects and employers
Full time availability (40 hours per week)
Ideally based in United States, Europe, or Singapore
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