Lead Mobile Engineer (React Native)
Drift Protocol is an open-source decentralized exchange on Solana offering cross-margined perpetual futures trading with advanced risk management.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
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
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead the design and development of a greenfield mobile DEX trading app using React Native. Work fully remote, primarily in the Asia timezone, collaborate with UI designers, resolve ambiguity, apply product sensibility, account for mobile library limitations, and ensure secure mobile implementations.
Requirements
- 3-5 years experience with React Native
- Proven ability to lead a greenfield mobile project
- Startup experience preferred
- Crypto experience preferred
- Familiarity with security limitations of mobile libraries
- Ability to collaborate closely with UI designers in the same timezone
Responsibilities
- Lead development of a greenfield mobile DEX trading app
- Collaborate with UI designers in the same timezone to deliver product outcomes
- Iteratively solve ambiguous product and technical problems
- Apply product sensibility to align technical solutions with designs
- Ensure security of mobile libraries and mobile implementations
- Coordinate and work remotely in the Asia timezone
Benefits
- Remote first — work from anywhere
- International team offsites
- Stipend for technology costs
- Leading compensation in the digital assets space
- Leading equity ownership in the digital assets space
