Senior Software Engineer - JTX

Full-time/Company: Jito Labs

Jito builds the Market Layer of Solana, the infrastructure that powers real markets on-chain. Their products (Jito Block Engine, BAM, and JitoSOL) are market leaders and core to how Solana’s economy operates. The company is small, profitable, and offers high ownership, fast execution, technical excellence, competitive compensation, and significant equity.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build core systems for a new trading product from scratch
- Build low-latency, high-reliability services that interact with Solana’s transaction and block building pipeline
- Own critical infrastructure: order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management
- Implement security at every layer, from transaction signing to user data protection
- Work closely with product and infrastructure teams to ship fast and iterate based on real user feedback
- Make significant architectural decisions as an early member of the team

Requirements:

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time on distributed systems
- Strong systems programming skills; Rust preferred (C/C++, Go, or similar acceptable)
- Track record building reliable, low-latency systems in production
- Security-first mindset: consider attack surfaces, key management, and failure modes
- Comfortable operating with high autonomy and incomplete information (0-to-1 product)

Nice to have:

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

Stack:

Rust, Go, C/C++, Solana

Benefits:

- $200,000 - $250,000 a year
- Significant equity
- High ownership and the opportunity to shape product roadmap, fast execution, and long-term impact

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