Backend Engineer - Solana & DeFi Vaults (Equity)

Veda; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Equity

Job summary

Veda is building vault infrastructure for DeFi across 15+ networks, with a tight-knit team, significant Series A backing, and a focus on secure, scalable Solana-based solutions. The role involves designing and delivering secure, scalable Solana programs and backend services, while collaborating with partners and internal teams to push the platform forward.

You will work with Rust, Solana, and cross-chain DeFi components, ensuring high data integrity, robust testing, and observability in

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Rust in security-critical systems.
• Deep knowledge of Solana, SVM, account model, and token standards.
• Experience building Solana programs and backend services or SDKs.
• Experience designing/operating production APIs in Python or TypeScript.
• Strong DeFi fundamentals across vaults, lending, trading, liquidity, cross-chain.
• Security mindset with handling real money.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Solana programs and backend services.
• Own features end to end from design through monitoring and improvement.
• Integrate third-party DeFi protocols and evaluate risks.
• Build reliable APIs, data pipelines, SDKs, and internal tools.
• Design for security and financial correctness, including access control and recovery.
• Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of the Solana platform.
• Develop automated tests and participate in security reviews and audits.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and external partners.

Skills

Rust programming

Solana

Backend services

Python/TypeScript

DeFi fundamentals

Security mindset

Testing practices

Communication

Anchor (preferred)

Solana dev tooling

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Veda is building vault infrastructure for DeFi across 15+ networks, with a tight-knit team, significant Series A backing, and a focus on secure, scalable Solana-based solutions. The role involves designing and delivering secure, scalable Solana programs and backend services, while collaborating with partners and internal teams to push the platform forward.

You will work with Rust, Solana, and cross-chain DeFi components, ensuring high data integrity, robust testing, and observability in