Senior Software Engineer - Special Projects

Join Jito Labs as a Senior Software Engineer to build a new application leveraging Solana's market infrastructure.

Work remotely with a world-class team on backend services and real-time data pipelines.

Jito builds the Market Layer of Solana, the infrastructure that powers real markets on-chain.

We started by building foundational network infrastructure: execution systems, capital markets, and incentive mechanisms that process billions in daily transaction value.

Our products (Jito Block Engine, BAM, and JitoSOL) are market leaders and core to how Solana's economy operates.

Now we're moving up the stack.

We're building the consumer product that helps people access better financial services, backed by the same world-class team that built the infrastructure powering billions in daily transaction value.

We're a small, profitable company with product-market fit.

## What you'll do

• •Design and build core systems for our new product from scratch
• •Build low-latency, high-reliability services that interact directly with Solana's transaction and block building pipeline
• •Own critical infrastructure: order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management
• •Implement security at every layer, from transaction signing to user data protection
• •Work closely with the product and infrastructure teams to ship fast and iterate based on real user feedback
• •Make significant architectural decisions as an early member of the team

## Conditions

• •Salary based on experience: $200,000 - $250,000 a year
• •Above-market total compensation and multiple forms of equity
• •100% employer-paid health benefits
• •All-expenses-paid team retreats and conferences
• •Weekly meal voucher and other benefits

• •5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on distributed systems
• •Strong systems programming skills.

Rust preferred, but deep experience in C/C++, Go, or similar is fine

• •Track record building reliable, low-latency systems in production
• •Security-first mindset.

You think about attack surfaces, key management, and failure modes before writing code

• •Familiarity with Solana's runtime, transaction lifecycle, and market microstructure (MEV, block building, execution quality) is a strong plus
• •Comfortable operating with high autonomy and incomplete information