Senior Software Engineer (Rust)
About Us
Defuse Labs develops NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain interactions in an automated world — connecting AI, services, and financial applications. At Defuse Labs we design intent-driven liquidity layers, where smart contracts breathe, AI transacts and chains sync in real-time With expertise in AI, cryptography, and decentralized finance, our team is redefining how intelligent agents interact across blockchain networks.
We invite you to be a part of our team of smart, professional, result-oriented and fun individuals. Join us to help ensure that our background processes run smoothly while we are striving to become the best in the industry.
Requirements
- Senior Rust Expertise.
- Software design, architecture and engineering skills.
- Experience with message based and event sourced architectures.
- Proven track record of smart contract development.
- Previous experience in the blockchain industry, Layer 1.
- Extreme ownership mentality - ability to take extreme ownership and full responsibility of tasks and projects.
- Professionalism and quality in work ethic.
- Desire to support and improve existing code.
- Previous experience with the NEAR ecosystem, e.g. nearcore codebase.
- Experience developing and auditing security-sensitive code- Familiarity with EVM / web3 ecosystem.
- Maintain and improve services written in Rust which are part of the business-critical infrastructure.
- Research and prototype application of cutting edge blockchain technologies.
- Review and provide feedback on technical architecture across the company.
- Participate in technical governance of OSS projects around NEAR ecosystem.
- Communication and collaboration with a fully distributed team.
- Collaborate with Ethereum and be active in the Ethereum engineering forums.
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