Senior Software Engineer - JTX

Full-time/Company: Jito Labs

Jito builds the Market Layer of Solana, providing execution systems, capital markets, and incentive mechanisms that process billions in daily transaction value. They are building JTX, a next-generation trading app focused on speed, trust, and workflow for serious on-chain traders. The company is small, profitable, and emphasizes high ownership, fast execution, and technical excellence.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build core systems for a 0-to-1 trading product
- Build low-latency, high-reliability services interacting with Solana’s transaction and block-building pipeline
- Own infrastructure: order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management
- Implement security from transaction signing to user data protection
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to ship fast and iterate on user feedback
- Make significant architectural decisions as an early team member

Requirements:

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with work on distributed systems
- Strong systems programming skills (Rust preferred; C/C++, Go or similar acceptable)
- Proven experience building reliable, low-latency production systems
- Security-first mindset (attack surfaces, key management, failure modes)
- Familiarity with Solana’s runtime, transaction lifecycle, and market microstructure is a strong plus
- Comfortable working with high autonomy and incomplete information in a 0-to-1 product

Nice to have:

- Trading systems or exchange infrastructure experience
- DeFi protocol engineering experience
- Fintech backend systems (payments, custody, execution)
- High-frequency or low-latency systems or security engineering background

Stack:

Rust, Go, C/C++, Solana, MEV

Benefits:

- Competitive compensation ($200,000 - $250,000 per year)
- Significant equity
- High ownership, fast execution, and opportunity to work on impactful product

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