Smart Contract Engineer

**About:** Veda is the DeFi engine powering financial apps enabling platforms to seamlessly create on-chain yield products. Our mission is to unlock DeFi for the world by providing seamless, enterprise-grade integrations for modern finance. Veda's technology powers many of DeFi's largest vault products, including [](http://ether.fi) Liquid, PlasmaUSD Vault, Lombard DeFi Vault, and Mantle cmETH. At $6B in TVL and 100k+ users, Veda is one of the fastest growing DeFi protocols with a team passionate about DeFi and dedicated to our work. This role will be high impact and have the opportunity to directly shape some of the most critical infrastructure in DeFi. **Role:** As a Smart Contract Engineer, you will contribute to our Solidity engineering organization — architecture, delivery, and security for all on-chain code. You will help to uphold world-class security and reliability standards for contracts securing ten-figure TVL. We seek individuals with high agency to join us in defining the next phase of DeFi growth and adoption. The ideal candidate takes ownership, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and adapts swiftly to evolving demands. ### Responsibilities: - Contribute to all Solidity codebases, including upgrade patterns, proxy architecture, account abstraction, and cross-chain messaging. - Drive rigorous design reviews, threat modeling, fuzz testing, and formal verification to achieve “audit-by-design” security - Continuous deployment, maintenance, and upgrades of existing vaults - Own end-to-end delivery of new protocol features - Manage external auditors and bug-bounty programs; implement on-chain monitoring and incident-response playbooks - Represent Veda in client integrations, conferences, and the broader open-source community ### What you'll bring: - 6+ years of software engineering experience - 2-3+ years writing production Solidity (ERC-20/4626, custom libraries, proxy & upgrade patterns) - Track record of creating or maintaining a contract suite without critical incidents - Knowledge of EVM internals, gas optimization, storage layout, and common smart-contract exploits (re-entrancy, oracle manipulation, MEV) - Fluency with Foundry and/or Hardhat, - Excellent written and verbal English; comfortable presenting to executives, auditors, and the wider community ### Preferred Skills & Experience: - Familiarity with multi-chain DeFi interactions and cross-chain messaging standards - Professional experience using Rust - Experience using Move-based smart-contract platforms (Aptos) would be a huge plus also. - Background in traditional finance, risk, credit, or derivatives a plus - Active contributor to open-source security research, EIPs, or protocol governance - Formal-verification expertise - Experience with audit cycles with top-tier firms (e.g., Trail of Bits, Spearbit)