Senior/Staff Smart Contract Engineer at Symbiotic

<h1><strong>About Symbiotic</strong></h1><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">Symbiotic is the infrastructure beneath collateral markets, where capital can secure financial obligations, remain productive, and be enforced by code.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">By changing the economics of onchain collateral, Symbiotic enables new categories of neofinance applications that were previously impossible to build - including credit, insurance, RWA liquidity, and more.<br />As institutional capital increasingly moves onchain, Symbiotic is positioned to become the coordination layer connecting capital and risk across the onchain economy.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Backed by Paradigm, Pantera, Cyber.fund, and Coinbase Ventures, we power 80+ vaults, 74,000+ active stakers, and 111 operators - with Chainlink, Nexus Mutual, and Cap Labs among the teams live in production.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">See how Symbiotic is powering the next generation of onchain finance: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://symbiotic.fi">symbiotic.fi</a></p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h1><strong>Our People</strong></h1><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re a tight-knit team of experienced builders working at the forefront of financial infrastructure. Our backgrounds span high-growth tech start-ups, leading crypto companies, major banks, insurers, and financial institutions. We work with ownership, a high bar for craft, and the urgency of an early-stage company - in an environment where people are trusted to take initiative and supported to do their best work.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re looking for talented professionals to join us at a defining moment, as Symbiotic helps shape the next generation of onchain finance.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h1><strong>About the role </strong></h1><h1></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're building on-chain collateral markets for both traditional and crypto-native finance. We're scaling our core protocol and the products built on top of it, and you'll work across our existing smart contract codebase — core contracts, core extensions, and middleware SDK — while building new modules from the ground up. Your work will span extending mature, in-production systems and architecting greenfield financial products designed and built from scratch on our stack.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design, write, optimize, and audit smart contracts in Solidity, with a focus on performance, clarity, and security</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build DeFi primitives from scratch — vaults, lending mechanics, staking, and related protocol-lev