Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

About Defuse Labs
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.

 
**Nice to have     **

• Previous experience with the NEAR ecosystem, e.g. nearcore codebase.
• Experience developing and auditing security-sensitive code
• Familiarity with EVM / web3 ecosystem.

 
Key Responsibilities 

• 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.