
Software Engineer – Solana
Rain
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $240,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own and evolve Solana programs end-to-end — from development through deployment and maintenance
- Build robust, scalable backend services that interact with Solana, EVM, and Stellar networks
- Scale our on-chain infrastructure to support millions of users globally — powering transactions, data ingestion, and real-time processing
- Play a central role in shaping the technical and product roadmap
- Drive architectural decisions in a fast-moving, rapidly evolving product
- Ship new capabilities quickly and iteratively to our customers
Requirements
- Deep expertise in the Solana ecosystem, including its programming model, tooling, and best practices
- Strong proficiency in Rust
- Solid understanding of smart contract security patterns and common vulnerability classes
- Experience with Node.js and backend systems
- 2–10+ years of engineering experience; compensation will be calibrated accordingly
Benefits
- Unlimited time off 🌴 Unlimited vacation can be daunting, so we require Rainmakers to take at least 10 days off.
- Flexible working ☕ We support a flexible workplace. If you feel comfortable at home, please work from home. If you’d like to work with others in an office, feel free to come in. We want everyone to be able to work in the environment in which they are their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers will receive a stipend to create a comfortable home environment.
- Easy to access benefits 🧠For US Rainmakers, we offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents, as well as a 100% company subsidized life insurance plan.
- Retirement goals💡Plan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match.
- Equity plan 📦 We offer every Rainmaker an equity option plan so we can all benefit from our success.
- Rain Cards 🌧️ We want Rainmakers to be knowledgeable about our core products and services. To support this mission, we issue a card for our team to use for testing.
- Health and Wellness 📚 High performance begins from within. Rainmakers are welcome to use their card for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you!
- Team summits ✨ Summits play an important role at Rain! Time spent together helps us get to know each other, strengthen our relationships, and build a common destiny. Expect team and company off-sites both domestically and internationally.
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Hard Skills & Tools
SolanaRustNode.jssmart contract securitybackend systemsprogramming modeltoolingbest practicesdata ingestionreal-time processing
Soft Skills
architectural decision-makingproduct roadmap shapingiterative developmentscalabilityrobustness