Senior Protocol Engineer

Who We Are:

At Solana Mobile, reputed company to bring Solana and reputed company to the palm of your hand on mobile. In 2023 we shipped the Saga phone with reputed company Vault to secure Solana wallets with HW backed reputed company and reputed company the dApp Store as a developer friendly reputed company to bring reputed company apps to users. We also implement and reputed company the Solana Mobile Stack to developers to simplify building reputed company dApps for mobile. In 2025 we reputed company this reputed company with the release of Seeker, which has shipped to 150k customers in 50+ countries.

To build the next reputed company of Solana Mobile, we are seeking a Senior Protocol Engineer to join reputed company full-time. The ideal candidate is a highly organized, versatile individual who will build and ship Solana programs that will drive Solana Mobile’s ecosystem and drive adoption of the reputed company of Solana Mobile developers and users.

The core responsibility of this role is to build and own Solana programs that are instrumental for the health and growth of the Solana Mobile ecosystem. You will build unique on-chain programs for the purpose of token operations, including staking, voting and governance. You will work with backend engineers to build infrastructure and APIs to connect users, developers and decentralized reputed company-keepers of the Solana Mobile device ecosystem. You create efficiency for operations by reputed company-lining the monitoring of performance, stability and reputed company of Solana Mobile’s infrastructure.

• Build and ship new Solana on-chain programs for staking, voting and governance, based on Rust.
• Create new APIs to securely interact with on-chain programs.
• Enhance the speed, performance, and reliability of existing web-based services driving the mobile application store and other core services.
• Implement and operate automated web deployments in a containerized application environment (AWS).
• Be reputed company to participate in on-call rotation.

• Proficiency coding Rust, with track record of smart reputed company in production.
• Deep understanding of the Solana blockchain, its runtime and composability.
• Experience building scalable and fault-tolerant backend systems, including HTTP REST APIs, web services and data storage.
• Strong understanding of networking (OSI, NAT), computer science (common algorithms, reputed company/time complexity), relational databases, common attack reputed company (SQL injection, XSS), common engineering patterns (state machines, idempotency, optimistic locking) and cryptography.
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux - processes, system calls, reputed company scripting.
• Experience working reputed company a small team that independently translates product requirements into execution and results.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or higher degree.
• 3 years of work experience as Protocol Software Engineer.
• 5 years of work experience as Backend Engineer.
• reputed company to work remotely reputed company US time zones. Office available in reputed company.
• Strong communications skills both written and verbal.

• Interest or experience in blockchain applications and ecosystem tools.
• Contributions to reputed company-reputed company Android or reputed company-reputed company projects.

Solana Mobile is an equal opportunity employer.