Solana Program Engineer (Rust) – High-Performance On-Chain

TechChain Talent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

On-site work

Job summary

TechChain Talent is recruiting for a hands-on blockchain engineer to design, build and maintain on-chain Solana programs in Rust. You will own components end-to-end, from design through deployment, monitoring and iteration, operating under real-world load and strict performance constraints.

You will work with backend and frontend teams to define clear on-chain and off-chain boundaries, optimize for latency and throughput, and ship changes that impact hundreds of thousands of users in production.

Qualifications

• Production Solana experience required.
• Strong Rust development skills.
• Emphasis on security and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build on-chain programs in Rust for high throughput.
• Ensure correctness, security and upgradeability in production.
• Optimize compute usage and transaction flows for latency.
• Collaborate with backend/frontend engineers on boundaries.
• Debug, test and ship changes deployed to users.

Skills

Solana

Rust

Performance engineering

Security

Distributed systems

Tools

Git

Rust tooling

Solana CLI

Job description

TechChain Talent is recruiting for a hands-on blockchain engineer to design, build and maintain on-chain Solana programs in Rust. You will own components end-to-end, from design through deployment, monitoring and iteration, operating under real-world load and strict performance constraints.

You will work with backend and frontend teams to define clear on-chain and off-chain boundaries, optimize for latency and throughput, and ship changes that impact hundreds of thousands of users in production.