Steakhouse Financial - Lead Kamino Market Infrastructure Software Engineer
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Job description
As the Lead Kamino Market Infrastructure Software Engineer, you'll be a force behind the software infrastructure powering efficient DeFi markets. You'll not only develop and maintain critical systems, but also play a key role in shaping the future of Solana financial markets through your code.
Our current infrastructure already monitors and operates our Kamino and Morpho vaults across chains(#1 DeFi curator with >$1.5B TVL). We are looking for top talent to build the most robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure for vault curation as we expand with best in class partners on Solana.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and own the Python market infrastructure stack for Kamino.
- Develop a reallocation engine that consumes real-time on-chain and off-chain data to drive automated capital allocations that make Kamino vaults efficient.
- Build reliable automated transaction and instruction pipelines for efficient interaction with Solana programs.
- Identify data points to enhance risk monitoring and implement real-time mitigation logic within the infrastructure.
- Create reporting tooling to support both operators and user-facing interfaces.
- Implement rigorous testing, monitoring, and security practices to ensure reliability, performance, and resilience against vulnerabilities and exploits.
Requirements
Do you have experience in TypeScript?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 5+ years of hands-on Python experience - including architecture, type system, testing, and production lifecycle management.
- 2+ years of experience developing and interacting with Solana programs.
- Proven experience building production-grade applications and infrastructure in Python and/or TypeScript on top of Solana programs.
- Deep understanding of the Solana transaction and instruction lifecycle, with ability to design systems optimized for performance and reliability.
- Ability to write Rust programs is a plus.
- Active engagement with the Solana DeFi ecosystem, protocols, infrastructure improvements, and evolving usage., * Entrepreneurial spirit: self-starter, driven, and loves building.
- Familiarity with economic modeling, financial mathematics, or quantitative analysis in DeFi.
- Detail-oriented, very rigorous, and proactive.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills with ability to translate complex financial requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Benefits & conditions
- Work in an ecosystem that encourages transparency and open-source principles.
- Help shape the next financial markets - your code will move hundreds of millions on day one.
- Competitive compensation, bonus, and equity.
- $3,500 WFH stipend.
- Remote first culture with opportunities to travel to team events and conferences.