Senior Protocol Engineer at Tensor

About Tensor

Tensor is the leading NFT Marketplace on Solana. We’ve done over $2bn in total traded volume, given back over $400m to our community, and serve nearly 1,000,000 traders every month.

What makes us special:

• We’re trader-first 📈 - our product is built for traders
• We’re the fastest ⚡️ - fastest UI, fastest discovery engine, fastest transaction speeds
• We’re building advanced NFT-Fi primitives 🤯
• We’re product-obsessed 🚢 - go to and see for yourself!

We’re backed by Placeholder, Solana Ventures, Alliance, Anatoly Yakovenko, and Raj Gokal (co-founders of Solana), and other reputable angels & funds in the crypto space.

About the Role

You’ll be at the ground floor of Tensor building novel protocols that bring NFT & digital assets trading to the world.

You will:

• Ship new protocols on Solana, EVM-based chains, Bitcoin, and Move-based chains
• Design on-chain primitives that enable efficient on-chain digital assets trading
• Own projects end-to-end: from protocol to SDK design and implementation

You are:

• Excited about web3/crypto/NFTs. We really cannot overstate this - you’ll be joining a team of web3 nerds
• A protocol engineer with 3+ years of experience building on-chain protocols that have touched 100,000+ users and/or millions in TVL
• Experienced with one (or more) of the following: Solana, Solidity/EVM, Bitcoin (ordinals, runes, PSBTs), Move

Bonus points for:

• Contributions to widely-used and reputable OSS projects
• Experience shipping full-featured apps that hook into protocols you’ve designed and implemented
• Strong fundamentals in statistics, math, or quantitative finance
• Good intuition on when to move fast/break things vs when to move carefully

What you’ll get:

• Generous ownership & stake in the company. We’re looking for owners 🤝
• A fast-paced, no-BS environment
• Flexible working hours & hybrid schedule
• Top-of-the-line M3 Macbook Pro and peripherals

Our stack is Rust (Solana protocol) and TypeScript (back-end & front-end).

Location

We’re remote-first. The founding team is in Toronto, and you’re welcome to join us there, but you don’t have to.