What we're looking for

Jito Labs is seeking a senior engineer to build the future of MEV and block building on Solana. We are looking for a creative and motivated engineer that can effectively wrangle problems with large design spaces and come up with simple and elegant solutions. The role is extremely dynamic and a place where low-level problem solvers will thrive.

Responsibilities

Dive deep into the world of MEV and on-chain trading, understanding the end-to-end flow of transactions through the Solana network
Collaborate with the team and customers to build higher performance, cutting edge features
Drive features from inception to completion: architecture, implementation, instrumentation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
Comfortably deep dive into performance bottlenecks and debug problems across the entire stack

Qualifications

5+ years of systems programming experience writing code in Rust, C, or C++
Familiar with low latency, high performance and high reliability programming
Experience shipping software and pushing to prod on a daily basis
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Glass-chewer: comfortable and excited to dive into tricky problems and using tools like valgrind and gdb to debug software problems
Ability to balance the engineering-time tradeoff between perfect and good enough
Worked at a <50 person startup
Have an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to understand the relationship between business and engineering

Nice to have

Familiar with running blockchain infrastructure
Experience building or running MEV bots or trading bots on EVM, SVM, or CEXs
HFT experience

Benefits

$200-$240k (approximate) and multiple forms of equity
Generous healthcare package & 401k benefits
All-expenses-paid team retreats and conferences
Unlimited PTO
Weekly meal voucher
WeWork membership
Your choice of laptop

Jito Labs mission is to scale Solana through high-performance MEV infrastructure.

We’re a fast moving and ambitious team building infrastructure to increase the performance of Solana and maximize rewards for stakers and validators. We're well-capitalized and have experienced massive growth across multiple products in 2023, gaining market share faster than our competitors. Jito-Solana, our MEV validator client for Solana, has gained more than 60% of stake on Solana.

Come join our rockstar team of eleven to accelerate our growth!

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