Overview

Company Overview: ORCA is a leading DeFi project on the Solana Blockchain. Our goal is to revolutionize the financial industry by leveraging blockchain technology to create a decentralized financial ecosystem. Unlike traditional financial systems that rely on intermediaries like banks and brokers, ORCA aims to provide financial services through smart contracts on Solana. Our dynamic and diverse team is committed to excellence and innovation across global markets.

As a team of talented engineers, Orca’s contributors are comfortable working around the stack but tend to be experts in a particular area. Orca is looking for a like-minded generalist who enjoys developing Solana smart contracts, making technical decisions with minimal oversight, and want to build something great.

What you’ll do

  • Develop Solana smart contracts: Build efficient smart contracts in Rust that handle millions of dollars in transactions per day.
  • Innovate with DeFi Mechanisms: Develop novel smart contract features that align with Orca’s goals and build user-friendly decentralized applications.
  • Security and Auditing: Ensure the security and integrity of smart contracts by implementing best practices for security, writing unit tests, and working with auditors.
  • Stay Current: Keep up with the latest advancements in Solana and smart contract development, continuously learning and applying new techniques to improve our platform.
  • Optimize and Maintain Contracts: Continuously improve and optimize smart contracts for performance, reliability, and scalability.

What you’ll bring

  • In-depth Knowledge of Solana Stack: Strong experience developing in Rust or similar languages, particularly for smart contract development.
  • API/SDK Expertise: Deploying and exporting smart contracts into a SDK w/ proper testing. Knowledge of AMM protocols is preferrable.
  • Proven track record: You’ve worked on performant, user-facing features at scale and have experience deploying smart contracts with a strong grasp of contract security best practices and design patterns.
  • Balanced mindset: You’re comfortable working independently in an async environment, but also enjoy coming together to collaborate as a team. You’re passionate about certain technologies and patterns, but also recognize there are trade-offs in different scenarios. You don’t see everything in absolutes, and identify the underlying dimensions to make decisions.
  • Passion for DeFi: You are excited to build on Solana, take ownership, and win together.

What Orca offers

  • Salary: 180,000 – 240,000 USDC (Range for US employees)
  • Token allocation: 200,000 – 300,000 ORCA over 4 years (Range for US employees)
  • Opportunity to learn and develop Solana DeFi.
  • Flexible work schedule.
  • Home office stipend.
  • Wellness stipend.
  • Option to work remotely or from Orca’s office in New York City.
  • Paid subscriptions to GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other tools that make you more productive.

Our stack

  • Rust, PostgreSQL, Timescale
  • Node.js, Typescript
  • Solana’s Geyser plugin, Yellowstone gRPC
  • Solana smart contracts written in Rust using Anchor
  • AWS ECS and docker to streamline deployments to staging, canary, and production
  • GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack

About: https://orca.so/about

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Discord: https://discord.orca.so

Podcast: https://orcapod.orca.so

Orca is an equal opportunity employer.