Join the leading lending and LSDeFi platform on the Sui blockchain, managing over $380M in TVL with a 61% market share. As a Senior Smart Contract Engineer, you will design and secure the foundational infrastructure that powers nearly a million users, building high-performance protocol primitives in Move for the fastest-growing Layer 1 ecosystem.
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Smart Contract Engineer at NAVI Labs
Build the foundational layer of DeFi on the fastest-growing Layer 1. This market-leading protocol dominates the Sui ecosystem with $380M+ TVL and nearly a million users. Backed by OKX Ventures and Hashed, you will own the design and security of mission-critical smart contracts that power the network's most trusted lending and LSDeFi platform. If you want to ship Move code that manages hundreds of millions in assets alongside an elite 15-person engineering team in the Bay Area, this is your chance to lead the next wave of DeFi innovation.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
NAVI Labs
Role overview
fintech30+ employees
NAVI Labs is a Palo Alto–based fintech company operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and blockchain. It builds the technology behind NAVI Protocol, creating simple and powerful tools that help people manage and grow their money on the blockchain. Its products include lending platforms for earning and borrowing, automated vaults that run strategies in the background, and trading tools for more advanced users. The platform has been operating for over three years and manages more than $1 billion in assets, reflecting its scale and reliability.
What you will do
- Design, develop, and deploy secure smart contracts using Move to power lending, borrowing, and liquidity infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of users.
- Architect and lead rigorous security audits and code reviews to protect $380M+ in TVL from potential vulnerabilities and exploits.
- Collaborate with a global engineering team to integrate complex smart contract logic with high-performance blockchain infrastructure and front-end applications.
Who this is a fit for
- Deep expertise in DeFi smart contract development, specifically building lending protocols, vaults, or liquidity primitives that have reached production at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Move, Solidity, or Rust with a track record of writing clean, efficient, and highly secure code verified by top-tier audit firms.
- Exceptional communication skills and a proactive problem-solving mindset, capable of articulating technical trade-offs to a global team while managing protocol-level complexity.
Why this role is remarkable
- Lead development for the dominant protocol on Sui, operating at massive scale with zero tolerance for failure and influencing the growth of a premier L1 ecosystem.
- Backed by elite investors including OKX Ventures, Hashed, and Dao5, providing the stability and resources of a market leader with the agility of a 15-person team.
- Own protocol-critical decisions and ship innovative products like automated vaults and PRE DEX while receiving support for visa sponsorship if based locally.
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