Rust Smart Contract Engineer

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Rust Smart Contract Engineer - candidates need to be based in US/Europe.

We are a new DeFi protocol launching soon on Solana. Our team has years of experience working in Solana for teams like Squads, Kamino, Raydium and more. We are backed by top investors and angels in the space.

At Exponent you will have the opportunity to build with us the first yield trading exchange on Solana. Through us, users can speculate on yields across Solana DeFi (interest rates, rewards, airdrops), hedge them, or reduce their volatility.

We deeply believe Solana is the best blockchain infrastructure for financial products and care about making it the richest on-chain economy for its participants. By joining us, you will have the opportunity to build a more efficient financial economy on Solana within an $8B+ ecosystem.

Your Role

As an early-stage startup, we are seeking engineers who can iterate and ship quickly as well as have a high degree of ownership and agency. We are looking for an additional smart contract engineer to assist our current engineering team on the liquidity side of Exponent. In this role you will:

• Contribute to, develop, and maintain our core liquidity programs such as our AMM and order book
• Research areas of improvements in our protocol’s liquidity mechanisms
• Work closely with our smart contract and product teams to scope and implement new liquidity features

Requirements

Experience in building, deploying, and maintaining programs in production using Rust

Experience maintaining DeFi programs that have handled significant on-chain volume

Deep understanding of major DeFi primitives (AMM, lending, order book, perpetual margin trading)

Prior experience writing smart contracts with Rust

Based in US or Europe

Benefits

• Generous ownership and stake in the company. We’re looking for owners.
• A fast-paced, no-BS environment. Communication overhead to a bare minimum.
• Work remotely from anywhere. Our team is spread across the US, Europe and Asia.
• Generous compensation. We are a lean team and look for A players.
• All-expenses-paid team retreats, 1-2 times a year.