Member of Technical Staff - Smart Contract

About the role

You'll own the contract and program layer of systems that real institutions depend on — tokenized funds, staking and validator infrastructure, collateral and liquidity products, and the compliance primitives that make them usable inside regulated workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship smart contracts and on-chain programs across EVM and Solana for tokenized funds, staking systems, and capital markets primitives.
• Own contract-level architecture decisions: upgrade paths, access control, transfer restrictions, oracle integration, fee and accounting logic, and failure modes.
• Work end-to-end on each system — from spec through to deployment tooling, monitoring, runbooks, and the off-chain integrations that make contracts operable in production.
• Build for regulation institutions: build the compliance and control surfaces that let regulated institutions actually use these systems — KYC/AML enforcement at the protocol layer, role-based access, investor-class restrictions, and auditable mint/burn/transfer flows.
• Translate ambiguous product or regulatory requirements into concrete contract designs without heavy process.
• Own security and rigor: drive the security posture of what you ship — threat modelling, invariant and fuzz testing, internal review, and working with external auditors.
• Contribute to technical research that shapes the next generation of Edge's on-chain products

Requirements

• 4+ years of production engineering experience, with substantial time spent shipping smart contracts or on-chain programs that handle real value.
• Deep fluency in at least one of Solidity (Foundry/Hardhat, EVM internals, upgrade patterns) or Solana programs (Rust, Anchor, Token-2022, SPL); credible working knowledge of the other, or a clear track record of picking up new chain ecosystems quickly.
• Strong instincts for smart contract security — you've thought hard about reentrancy, oracle manipulation, access control, and the failure modes specific to your stack, and you write code that reflects it.
• Comfort owning systems end-to-end, including the off-chain pieces that production contracts depend on.
• Ability to operate in a high-autonomy environment.
• High agency, low ego. You own your work end-to-end and hold yourself accountable for quality.

Bonus points

• Experience with tokenized assets, regulated financial products, or institutional DeFi.
• Familiarity with tokenized vault standards (ERC-4626, ERC-7540 for asynchronous deposit/redemption flows) and Token-2022 extensions such as transfer hooks.
• Background in capital markets, custody, or staking infrastructure.
• Prior work that has been through formal audit.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience with Solidity, Rust, or equivalent programming languages.
• Experience with EVM or Solana ecosystem.
• Experience with smart contract security best practices.
• Experience with building and deploying production-grade smart contracts.
• Experience with regulatory compliance and control surfaces.

Skills

• Strong understanding of smart contract principles and best practices.
• Experience with EVM and/or Solana smart contract development.
• Experience with Solidity, Rust, or equivalent programming languages.
• Experience with EVM or Solana ecosystem.
• Experience with smart contract security best practices.
• Experience with building and deploying production-grade smart contracts.
• Experience with regulatory compliance and control surfaces.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Hybrid/Flexible Working Arrangements
• Flexible Time Off (paid)
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Competitive family planning benefits for US employees
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
• Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts/lunches
• Employee Resource Groups
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Pay

The base salary ranges included below will be commensurate with candidate experience, expertise and local market. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise. At Galaxy, we maintain a total compensation philosophy which consists of a competitive base salary, annual bonus, and equity incentives.

Base Salary Range

• $200,000 - $250,000 USD

Schedule

Hybrid/Flexible Working Arrangements