Solana Protocol Engineer

Perena • ,

8d

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• 3+ years building financial systems where correctness and settlement guarantees are non-negotiable — payment rails, custody/settlement infrastructure, or trading systems
• Direct experience building payment rails, stablecoin infrastructure, or institutional custody/settlement systems — ideally at places like Bridge, BVNK, Fireblocks, a fund, a market maker, or an exchange/custodian
• Experience as a protocol/systems dev at a market maker, prop shop, custodian, or crypto exchange is a strong signal
• Proven track record orchestrating flow of funds across multiple venues — moving real money between on-chain and off-chain systems with attention to reconciliation, settlement, and failure modes
• Working knowledge of on-chain development (Solana Rust/Anchor or EVM Solidity), or clear ability to ramp fast — you don't need to be a Solana perf specialist, but you should reason fluently about how funds move on-chain
• Experience with secure key management, multisig, or MPC custody architectures
• Familiarity with DeFi primitives (AMMs, lending protocols, vaults) and how yield strategies are structured and executed
• Strong security instinct: you think in attack vectors and have worked through audit processes
• Comfort in fast-moving, high-stakes environments

Nice To Haves

• Earlier in your career? Apply anyway if you can show real campaign ownership, sharp writing, and a clear point of view on the market.

Responsibilities

• Design flow-of-funds orchestration across venues and chains — bridging, routing, rebalancing between custodial and non-custodial systems — with reliable settlement, reconciliation, and failure handling as first-class concerns
• Develop custody and key management patterns that meet institutional-grade security requirements across custodial and non-custodial environments
• Build on-chain settlement and payment flows, including integrations with DEXs, lending markets, custodians, and bridge infrastructure — starting on Solana (Rust) and extending across EVM and other chains as we scale
• Build and maintain the systems that move Perena's money: minting/redeeming USD, allocating collateral, and routing capital between on-chain protocols, centralized custodians/exchanges, and partner bank rails

Benefits

• 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.Many of us come from design, art, or cultural backgrounds.
• We think from first principles — Perena is a reimagining of financial infrastructure. That starts with reimagining how we build.
• We work in public — we value clarity, writing, and sharing progress openly within the team and with our community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed