Develop and optimize smart contracts for Real World Asset tokenization, collaborating with product and legal teams to ensure compliance and effectiveness.
About the Company
Hi, we're Ondo Finance. Our mission is to provide institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and services. We have both a technology arm that develops decentralized finance technology, and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized funds. We were the first company to tokenize exposure to US Treasuries, and have since expanded into several other assets. We are also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.
Founded by folks from Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team, we’re backed by some of the best investors in the world including Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global, and more. We are currently the leaders in the space in terms of AUM and are well capitalized to continue growing the firm. We're fully remote, with team members across the U.S.
About the Role
As a Smart Contract Engineer at Ondo, you will be at the forefront of developing and optimizing smart contracts that power Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization. You will design and implement secure, efficient, and scalable smart contract solutions across many blockchain ecosystems.
In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, legal, and compliance, to ensure the contracts are not only technically sound but also aligned with regulatory standards. You’ll tackle complex challenges around asset tokenization, security, novel token bridging solutions, novel DeFi protocols, and DeFi interoperability.
You will play a pivotal role in expanding Ondo’s suite of products and paving the way for large-scale blockchain adoption by traditional financial institutions.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of finance by creating smart contract solutions that bring real-world assets on-chain, driving innovation and transforming financial markets.
Responsibilities
•Smart Contract and Protocol Development: Drive the development of new chain deployments, novel DeFi interoperability and bridging solutions, and DeFi protocols for Ondo Finance’s ever-evolving product suite.
•Technical Leadership: Serve as a tech lead and subject matter expert for blockchain projects, guiding the engineering team in delivering high-impact, scalable solutions while making sound technical decisions that align with long-term goals.
Requirements
•Based in PT, MT, CT, or ET time zones.
•Excellent technical and non-technical communication skills, verbal and written.
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
•5+ years of software engineering experience.
•Minimum of 3+ years of experience working in blockchain engineering, ideally coming from another Defi Protocol live on multiple chains.
•A strong competency with Solidity and other non-EVM smart contract languages.
•Proven results in building and scaling a Defi protocol.
•Strong technical grasp and excellent judgment on task prioritizations.
•Strong emphasis on understanding the “why” behind requirements and commitment defining the “minimum scope”.
What we offer
•Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — we're well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
•Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
•Small remote-first team across many countries — you'll be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
•A+ colleagues — our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
•Best-in-class investors — we are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.
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