Senior Smart Contract Engineer (SVM)
- Salary
- $170K - $250K
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Ellipsis Labs's standard text
Ellipsis 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.
The Opportunity
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 systems
Qualifications
Required
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining SVM smart contracts in production, with and without Anchor
- Experience working with auditors
- Deep understanding of Solana and low-level SVM concepts
- A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude
- Passion for decentralized finance
Preferred
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
- Experience in quant trading or DeFi
What this role asks for
In most of Ellipsis Labs's ads
Blockchain
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
86% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Ellipsis Labs's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Ellipsis Labs's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering
This role is one of 9 open in Engineering.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Blockchain (9 of 9), Rust (6 of 9), C (5 of 9), C++ (5 of 9), AWS (3 of 9), Golang (3 of 9), React (3 of 9)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Quantitative Developer - Risk posted Aug 19
- Software Engineer - 2027 New Grads posted Mar 26
- Software Engineer - 2027 Interns posted Mar 26
- Senior Backend Engineer posted Feb 20
- Senior Product Engineer posted Feb 20
- Senior Software Engineer posted Jan 30
- Staff Infrastructure Engineer posted Jan 11
- Senior Performance Engineer posted Jan 11
From the team and dates on Ellipsis Labs's own job board.
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