Engineer

Who We Are

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience, without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build.

What We Do

Frontier Traders is a community and rewards platform for elite firms and traders working at the frontier of emerging assets, markets, and technology. It brings trading activity from across the Solana ecosystem into one place, where traders earn rewards, compete in campaigns for prize pools, climb leaderboards, and progress through VIP tiers that unlock rebates and infrastructure access.

The product tracks spot and perpetuals volume across every venue on Solana, spanning RWAs, tokenized equities, and the long tail of ecosystem assets. Its users are demanding by nature: proprietary trading firms, market makers, and HFTs, alongside the onchain traders moving real volume every day. They notice when a number is wrong, and they expect the product to keep pace with the market.

The platform integrates with more than 25 ecosystem partners across DEXs, perpetuals venues, launchpads, wallets, and data infrastructure, including Jupiter, Raydium, Orca, Phoenix, Pump.fun, Phantom, Helius, and Pyth.

The Opportunity

Solana Foundation is seeking a Lead Engineer to own Frontier Traders end to end, with a particular focus on building the trader-facing product and experiences that sit on top of Solana's markets and data.

This is a role for an engineer who is genuinely talented at building products. You should be as comfortable thinking through an interaction, designing a frontend architecture, and shipping a polished experience as you are working through the APIs, data models, and indexing infrastructure behind it. Frontier is a data-rich trading product: numbers need to be correct, interfaces need to be fast, and complex market activity needs to feel intuitive to the person on the other side of the screen.

You will work in a small team with unusual autonomy, directly alongside Foundation stakeholders and the trading firms who use the product. You won't be handed narrowly scoped frontend tickets or a predetermined roadmap. You will own the product technically from end to end, develop opinions about what should be built, and turn those ideas into experiences traders actually want to use.

To Be Successful in This role