Senior Software Engineer - Special Projects

Jito is building the Market Layer of Solana, focusing on infrastructure that powers real markets on-chain. They are developing products like Jito Block Engine, BAM, and JitoSOL, which are market leaders and central to Solana's economy. The company is now creating JTX, a high-performance trading app for serious traders, emphasizing speed, trust, and user experience.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $200k–$250k

Responsibilities

• Design and build core systems for the new product from scratch
• Build low-latency, high-reliability services that interact directly 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 the 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 spent on distributed systems
• Strong systems programming skills. Rust preferred, but deep experience in C/C++, Go, or similar is fine
• Track record building reliable, low-latency systems in production
• Security-first mindset. You think about attack surfaces, key management, and failure modes before writing code
• Familiarity with Solana's runtime, transaction lifecycle, and market microstructure (MEV, block building, execution quality) is a strong plus
• Comfortable operating with high autonomy and incomplete information. This is a 0-to-1 product, not a mature codebase

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Significant equity
• Opportunity to work on impactful problems