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Perena • New York City, NY

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About The Position

Welcome to Perena: Your Risk Layer on Solana. Perena is a decentralized financial protocol on Solana that offers USD STAR (USD), a yield-bearing asset. USD is fully collateralized and earns yield from diversified, real sources such as delta-neutral strategies and secured borrow-lend market positions. Its value grows automatically, making it a simple, secure way to save on-chain. USD is fully collateralized by a diversified portfolio of yield-generating assets and positions, including: Delta-neutral hedged positions on centralized and decentralized exchanges (e.g., BTC, ETH, SOL), Secured borrow-lend market positions involving on-chain stablecoins, Real-world assets, such as the reinsurance fund by OnRe. Perena actively manages asset allocation and diversifies across multiple strategies to reduce single points of failure and optimize for sustainable, consistent yield performance. Built on Solana’s high-performance blockchain, Perena is creating a liquid, yield-bearing digital dollar that anyone can access with a sustainable, risk-managed approach. Looking ahead, Perena is building a full suite of on-chain stablebanking products to expand access to real yield across crypto and traditional finance. The goal is a sustainable financial experience for anyone to transact, save, and invest on-chain. Perena is founded by a team of builders from the Solana ecosystem with backgrounds in TradFi and DeFi. We believe deeply in pushing financial architecture forward — and in doing it with transparency, resilience, and speed. We’re backed by some of the best in the world, including: Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, Investors from Citadel, Jane Street, IMC, and Susquehanna, Borderless Capital, Binance Labs, Primitive Ventures, Maelstrom, Anagram, Breed, and others. Perena was a sponsor of the Colosseum Hackathon Stablecoin Track, helping fund the next generation of stablecoin projects on Solana. Our growing community spans over 20,000 developers, users, and builders aligned around one goal: reinventing how money works. We know that the best people often have varied backgrounds, and as a newer venture, we are open to hiring motivated folks who can create their own role and make a huge impact at Perena. Let us know how you're special and what excites you the most about Perena. We are always welcome to brilliant minds and exceptional talent. Nothing is out of the scope for success here.

Requirements

• Motivated individuals with varied backgrounds.
• Ability to create your own role.
• Ability to make a huge impact at Perena.
• Brilliant minds and exceptional talent.
• Interest in stablecoins transforming how the world stores, moves, and grows value.
• Interest in building programmable, accessible, internet-native finance.
• Ability to take initiative.
• Ability to treat work as craft — thoughtful, opinionated, and precise.
• Ability to think from first principles.
• Ability to work in public, valuing clarity, writing, and sharing progress openly.

Nice To Haves

• Backgrounds in design, art, or cultural fields.

Responsibilities

• Create your own role and make a huge impact at Perena.
• Let us know how you're special and what excites you the most about Perena.
• Bring brilliant minds and exceptional talent.
• Contribute to reinventing how money works.

Benefits

• Stablecoins are transforming how the world stores, moves, and grows value — and we’re still early.
• This is a once-in-a-generation shift: from legacy money to programmable, accessible, internet-native finance.
• Building here isn’t just technically interesting — it’s globally meaningful.
• We own our future — we trust each other to take initiative.
• Voices are heard and outcomes matter.
• We treat our work as craft — thoughtful, opinionated, and precise.
• We think from first principles — Perena is a reimagining of financial infrastructure.
• We work in public — we value clarity, writing, and sharing progress openly within the team and with our community.

What This Job Offers

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