Tensor is hiring a Web3 Senior Protocol Engineer
Compensation: $36k - $54k estimated
Location: Remote
About Tensor
Tensor is the leading NFT Marketplace on Solana. We’ve done over$2bn in total traded volume,given back over$400m to our community, and serve nearly 1,000,000traders every month.
What makes us special:
- We’re trader-first 📈 - our product is built for traders
- We’re the fastest ⚡️ - fastest UI, fastest discovery engine, fastest transaction speeds
- We’re building advanced NFT-Fi primitives 🤯
- We’re product-obsessed 🚢- go to https://tensor.trade/ and see for yourself!
We’re backed by Placeholder, Solana Ventures, Alliance, Anatoly Yakovenko, and Raj Gokal (co-founders of Solana), and other reputable angels & funds in the crypto space.
About the Role
You’ll be at the ground floor of Tensor building novel protocols that bring NFT & digital assets trading to the world.
You will:
- Ship new protocols on Solana, EVM-based chains, Bitcoin, and Move-based chains
- Design on-chain primitives that enable efficient on-chain digital assets trading
- Own projects end-to-end: from protocol to SDK design and implementation
You are:
- Excited about web3/crypto/NFTs. We really cannot overstate this - you’ll be joining a team of web3 nerds
- A protocol engineer with 3+ years of experience building on-chain protocols that have touched 100,000+ users and/or millions in TVL
- Experienced with one (or more) of the following: Solana, Solidity/EVM, Bitcoin (ordinals, runes, PSBTs), Move
Bonus points for:
- Contributions to widely-used and reputable OSS projects
- Experience shipping full-featured apps that hook into protocols you’ve designed and implemented
- Strong fundamentals in statistics, math, or quantitative finance
- Good intuition on when to move fast/break things vs when to move carefully
What you’ll get:
- Generous ownership & stake in the company. We’re looking for owners 🤝
- A fast-paced, no-BS environment
- Flexible working hours & hybrid schedule
- Top-of-the-line M3 Macbook Pro and peripherals
Our stack is Rust (Solana protocol) and TypeScript (back-end & front-end).
Location
We’re remote-first. The founding team is in Toronto, and you’re welcome to join us there, but you don’t have to.
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