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Join Solana Foundation as a Lead Engineer for Frontier Traders, a platform for elite traders. Own the technical direction, build data pipelines, and deliver a responsive user experience in a fast-paced environment.
Description
Who We Are
The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience, without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build.What We Do
Frontier Traders is a community and rewards platform for elite firms and traders working at the frontier of emerging assets, markets, and technology. It brings trading activity from across the Solana ecosystem into one place, where traders earn rewards, compete in campaigns for prize pools, climb leaderboards, and progress through VIP tiers that unlock rebates and infrastructure access. The product tracks spot and perpetuals volume across every venue on Solana, spanning RWAs, tokenized equities, and the long tail of ecosystem assets. Its users are demanding by nature: proprietary trading firms, market makers, and HFTs, alongside the onchain traders moving real volume every day. They notice when a number is wrong, and they expect the product to keep pace with the market. The platform integrates with more than 25 ecosystem partners across DEXs, perpetuals venues, launchpads, wallets, and data infrastructure, including Jupiter, Raydium, Orca, Phoenix, Pump.fun, Phantom, Helius, and Pyth.Responsibilities
You will:
- Own the technical direction and delivery of Frontier Traders end to end, from onchain data ingestion through to the trader-facing product
- Build and scale the pipelines that attribute spot and perpetuals volume across every venue on Solana, normalizing fills, wallets, and accounts into activity traders can trust
- Design and operate the rewards engine behind campaigns, points, prize pools, and leaderboards, where correctness is a hard requirement rather than a goal
- Build and maintain the VIP tier system, including rolling maker and taker volume windows, tier progression, and rebate calculation
- Ship realtime experiences, including live activity feeds, leaderboards, and tier progression, that stay accurate and responsive under market load
- Own integrations with ecosystem partners across DEXs, perps venues, launchpads, wallets, and data providers, and keep them working as those venues evolve
- Work directly with traders, firms, and market makers to turn their feedback into shipped product
- Set the engineering bar for the product: architecture, code quality, testing, observability, and incident response
- Make pragmatic build-versus-integrate decisions that keep the team fast without accruing the kind of technical debt that erodes trust with a sophisticated user base
- Partner closely with design, product, and the Foundation's Trading and Growth teams to shape what gets built and why
Requirements
You Ideally Have:
- A track record of building and shipping products end to end, with clear personal ownership of what you built rather than a supporting role in someone else's system
- Strong engineering fundamentals across the stack, and the judgment to know where the genuinely hard problems are
- Technical proficiency in Rust and other performant programming languages
- Experience with high-volume data pipelines, indexing, or realtime systems where both accuracy and latency matter
- Experience building financial or transactional products where being wrong has real consequences
- Working knowledge of Solana: accounts, transactions, program interactions, and how to get reliable data off the chain
- Familiarity with DeFi market structure, including spot and perpetuals venues, AMMs and order books, maker and taker dynamics, and how fees and rebates actually work
- Strong product instincts and a willingness to hold an opinion about the user experience
- Comfort operating with ambiguity, limited process, and evolving priorities
- Excellent communication, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and to work directly with demanding external users
Job Details
Market range (est.)$135k–$270k
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
PostedSep 22, 2026 (20d ago)
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Tech Stack
Rustdata pipelinesrealtime systemsDeFifinancial products