Backend Engineer
Drift Protocol is an open-source decentralized exchange on Solana offering cross-margined perpetual futures trading with advanced risk management.
Projects
About Drift Protocol
Drift Protocol provides decentralized perpetual futures trading on Solana with cross-margin capabilities, advanced order types, and risk management features. It combines traditional finance market structure with DeFi composability, offering spot trading, perpetual futures, and yield generation through a single unified margin account.
Skills
About the Role
You will own the developer experience around Rust and Python SDKs, integrations, and backend tooling. You will build and maintain SDKs and developer tools, keep SDKs in sync with on-chain program changes, write examples and documentation, debug integration issues, and contribute to CI/CD and release workflows.
Requirements
- Strong Rust and/or Python coding experience with a focus on SDK or API development and design
- Experience building developer-facing tools SDKs or backend libraries
- Familiarity with blockchain or fintech systems
- Experience with Solana or DeFi protocols (bonus)
- Comfortable communicating and supporting other engineers and external developers with SDK usage debugging and integration
- Understanding of integrations CI/CD workflows and building for reliability at scale
- Self-driven detail-oriented and excited about developer experience
Responsibilities
- Own development maintenance and support of Rust and Python SDKs
- Collaborate with product and engineering to prioritize backend and devex projects and integrations
- Build developer tooling examples and documentation
- Ensure SDKs are kept in sync with on-chain program changes and protocol upgrades
- Debug and resolve issues from external users and internal developers
- Contribute to CI/CD processes testing and release workflows for SDKs
Benefits
- Competitive crypto-native compensation (base + token upside)