Staff Backend Engineer, Vaults

We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to work with a small and highly technical team building the infrastructure behind new DeFi protocols and vault products at Aave Labs.

The role focuses on the systems between onchain protocols and the applications built around them.

This includes vault management and curation systems, constraint-based allocation solvers, secure protocol infrastructure, high-throughput blockchain indexing, and performant, well-documented APIs.

You'll work on systems where correctness, reliability, performance, and security directly affect user funds and protocol integrity.

The role has significant ownership and autonomy across offchain infrastructure and components that interact closely with smart contracts and onchain state.

You will also work closely with Quant Engineers.

Quant owns the financial models, assumptions, validation, and calibration.

Backend owns the production systems, data pipelines, and services that run those models.

Smart contract engineers own their onchain integration and enforcement.

We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to work with a small and highly technical team building the infrastructure behind new DeFi protocols and vault products at Aave Labs.

The role focuses on the systems between onchain protocols and the applications built around them.

This includes vault management and curation systems, constraint-based allocation solvers, secure protocol infrastructure, high-throughput blockchain indexing, and performant, well-documented APIs.

You'll work on systems where correctness, reliability, performance, and security directly affect user funds and protocol integrity.

The role has significant ownership and autonomy across offchain infrastructure and components that interact closely with smart contracts and onchain state.

You will also work closely with Quant Engineers.

Quant owns the financial models, assumptions, validation, and calibration.

Backend owns the production systems, data pipelines, and services that run those models.

Smart contract engineers own their onchain integration and enforcement.

• Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure for new DeFi protocols and vault products
• Build vault management, curation, and constraint-based allocation systems