Senior Smart Contract Engineer (SVM)

SVM Smart Contract Engineer OpportunityEllipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.Ellipsis Labs is seeking an SVM Smart Contract Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will:Develop and maintain critical smart contracts for the SVM, along with the appropriate monitoring systemsRequired QualificationsExperience building, deploying, and maintaining SVM smart contracts in production, with and without AnchorExperience working with auditorsDeep understanding of Solana and low-level SVM conceptsA demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitudePassion for decentralized financePreferred QualificationsExperience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWSExperience in quant trading or DeFi