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# Senior Protocol Engineer

- **Company:** Asula Labs
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Logic, Blockchain, Virtual Machines, Bitcoin
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5459720746

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience designing protocols for financial applications like decentralized exchanges and lending markets.
 * Solid understanding of consensus, blockchain architecture and virtual machine concepts (especially as they pertain to Solana).
 * Experience with audits, deployment and maintenance of onchain protocols.

 * Prior experience building on top of bitcoin.
 * Prior experience building application-specific blockchains from consensus and networking to business logic.

## Description

For this role we're seeking protocol-focused engineers who can work across the blockchain stack to ship new protocols while balancing speed and safety. The core expectations from a candidate in this role would be to:

 * Develop and maintain smart contracts for the SVM.
 * Develop and maintain schemes for collateral management on bitcoin where expressivity is limited.
 * Design fundamentally sound protocols for lending and insurance.