Member of Technical Staff - Smart Contract

Galaxy•New York, NY

13h•$200,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world – and we’re building the products and services to make that future a reality. Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading, investment banking, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S. We work at the intersection of finance and technology, helping institutions, startups, and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz, our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI. Galaxy is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. 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. This is a builder role with a research dimension. You'll move between protocol-level design work and shipping production contracts that clear institutional audit, security, and operational bars. You own your work end-to-end: spec, contracts, tests, deployment tooling, monitoring, runbooks, and the off-chain integrations that make contracts operable in production.

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Design and ship on-chain systems
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 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.
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