Jito Labs is seeking a senior engineer to build the future of MEV and block building on Solana. We are looking for a creative and motivated engineer that can effectively wrangle problems with large design spaces and come up with simple and elegant solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Dive deep into the world of MEV and on-chain trading, understanding the end-to-end flow of transactions through the Solana network
- Collaborate with the team and customers to build higher performance, cutting edge features
- Comfortably deep dive into performance bottlenecks and debug problems across the entire stack
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of systems programming experience writing code in Rust, C, or C++
- Familiar with low latency, high performance and high reliability programming
- Excited to dive into tricky problems and using tools like valgrind and gdb to debug software problems
- Ability to balance the engineering-time tradeoff between perfect and good enough
- Worked at a <50 person startup, have an entrepreneurial mindset
Nice to have:
- Familiar with running blockchain infrastructure
- Experience building or running MEV bots or trading bots on EVM, SVM, or CEXs
- HFT experience