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title: 'Senior Software Engineer - JTX at Jito Labs'
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# Senior Software Engineer - JTX at Jito Labs

- **Company:** Jito Labs
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$250k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-03-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/jito.wtf/86939232-2bd9-41c4-b7a4-5ed629758f22

## Job description

Jito builds the Market Layer of Solana, the infrastructure that powers real markets on-chain. We started by building foundational network infrastructure: execution systems, capital markets, and incentive mechanisms that process billions in daily transaction value. Our products (Jito Block Engine, BAM, and JitoSOL) are market leaders and core to how Solana's economy operates. Now we're moving up the stack. You’ll help build JTX, the trading app designed to capture the next generation of on-chain volume — not simply by adding more features or competing on fees, but by creating the platform serious traders genuinely want to use every day. This is a product challenge that goes far beyond shipping functionality. It requires deep attention to speed, trust, feel, workflow, and user obsession at every level of the experience. The hardest part isn’t measuring what traders want — it’s building a product so intuitive and powerful that they choose it instinctively. We're a small, profitable company with product-market fit. That means: High ownership: Every team member drives significant technical decisions and shapes our product roadmap. Fast execution: We ship rapidly and iterate based on real-world feedback. Progress, not motion. Technical excellence: We tackle complex problems with elegant, scalable solutions. Sustainable growth: Strong financials and proven market fit enable us to focus on long-term impact. We offer competitive compensation, significant equity, and the opportunity to work on problems that matter.

## About the Position

We're building JTX, a next-generation trading app that brings the speed, power, and sophistication of Solana’s market infrastructure directly to traders. This is a true 0-to-1 product effort focused on creating an experience that serious on-chain traders actually want to use — fast, intuitive, high-performance, and deeply connected to the mechanics of the market itself. You’ll work alongside the team behind some of the leading infrastructure powering billions in daily transaction value on Solana, translating complex systems and market behavior into a seamless trading experience for users. Whether it’s shaping workflows, refining interfaces, improving execution visibility, or helping define the product from the ground up, this role will have a direct hand in building what trading on Solana looks like next. If you've spent time thinking about how markets actually work on Solana and want to build the product layer on top of that, this is the role.

## What You'll Do

- Design and build core systems for our new product from scratch
- Build low-latency, high-reliability services that interact directly with Solana's transaction and block building pipeline
- Own critical infrastructure: order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management
- Implement security at every layer, from transaction signing to user data protection
- Work closely with the product and infrastructure teams to ship fast and iterate based on real user feedback
- Make significant architectural decisions as an early member of the team

## What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on distributed systems
- Strong systems programming skills. Rust preferred, but deep experience in C/C++, Go, or similar is fine
- Track record building reliable, low-latency systems in production
- Security-first mindset. You think about attack surfaces, key management, and failure modes before writing code
- Familiarity with Solana's runtime, transaction lifecycle, and market microstructure (MEV, block building, execution quality) is a strong plus
- Comfortable operating with high autonomy and incomplete information. This is a 0-to-1 product, not a mature codebase

Relevant Background

If you have experience in any of the following, you may be a good fit:

- Trading systems or exchange infrastructure
- DeFi protocol engineering
- Fintech backend systems (payments, custody, execution)
- High-frequency or low-latency systems
- Security engineering

## About Jito Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jito Labs builds high-performance MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) infrastructure and liquid staking solutions for the Solana blockchain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain services / decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Solana validators, MEV searchers, and SOL stakers (B2B and B2C)
- **Mission**: To maximize validator rewards, scale the Solana network, and improve network decentralization through MEV software and liquid staking.

## Products & Services
- **[Jito-Solana Client](https://www.jito.wtf/)**: A high-performance validator client for Solana that enables validators to capture MEV rewards and attract more stake.
- **[Block Engine & Bundles](https://www.jito.wtf/)**: Infrastructure that allows MEV searchers to submit bundles of transactions to gain an edge in the Solana MEV landscape.
- **[ShredStream](https://www.jito.wtf/)**: A low-latency data feed for traders and searchers to access Solana network data faster.
- **[JitoSOL](https://www.jito.wtf/)**: A liquid staking pool on Solana that lets users stake SOL for JitoSOL tokens, earning MEV-enhanced rewards while maintaining liquidity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (latest round: $50M Series B)
- **Total Funding**: $72.1M across three rounds:
  - Seed (Dec 2021): $2.1M
  - Series A (Aug 2022): $10M led by Multicoin Capital and Framework Ventures
  - Series B (approx. 2025): $50M with participation from a16z Crypto, Delphi Digital, Alameda Research, and others [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/jito-network)
- **Key Metric**: JitoSOL staking pool exceeded **$100M in monthly tips** in late 2024 [cointelegraph.com]; Jito Labs recorded **$78.9M in monthly fees** in October 2024 [theblock.co]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Multicoin Capital, Framework Ventures, a16z Crypto, Delphi Digital, Alameda Research, Anatoly Yakovenko, Armani Ferrante
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Monthly headcount growth of +13.6% (as of mid-2025) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/jito-labs)
  - Team of ~17 employees distributed across 6 countries (US, Canada, Czechia, Nepal, Indonesia, Mexico) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/jito-labs)
  - Trusted by the largest validators on Solana

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover MEV infrastructure on Solana**: Jito’s client and Block Engine are the de facto standards for MEV on the network.
- **Integrated liquid staking + MEV**: JitoSOL is the leading liquid staking pool, offering MEV-enhanced yields that differentiate it from vanilla staking.
- **High-performance client**: The Jito-Solana client is designed to maximize validator rewards, attracting stake away from vanilla clients.
- **Ecosystem trust**: Backed by top-tier crypto VCs and adopted by the largest validators, giving it strong network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Solana network** through continued improvements to the validator client and infrastructure.
- **Deepening the JitoSOL ecosystem** to increase TVL and attract more stakers.
- **Expanding tooling for MEV searchers** (Bundles, ShredStream) to maintain a competitive edge.
- **Growing the team** – recently brought recruiting in-house and posted senior engineering roles [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/jito.wtf).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Engineering roles are remote within the USA, offering flexibility.
- **High-impact, small team**: With only ~17 people, each hire has outsized influence on the Solana ecosystem’s infrastructure.
- **Cutting-edge blockchain work**: Directly involved in MEV, liquid staking, and Solana scalability – some of the most technically challenging areas in crypto.
- **Fast-paced environment**: Company culture described as “dynamic, fast-paced” and “ever-evolving” [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/jito-labs).
- **Strong engineering focus**: ~44% of employees are in technical roles; the team includes alumni from Jump Trading, Paradigm, and other top crypto firms [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/jito-labs).
- **Competitive compensation**: Typical for well-funded crypto startups (Series B, $72M raised), though specific perks are not publicly listed.

## Sources
1. [jito.wtf](https://www.jito.wtf/)
2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/jito.wtf)
3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/jito-labs)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/jito-network)
5. [indexed.vc](https://indexed.vc/companies/jito-labs)
6. [cointelegraph.com](https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-jito-staking-pool-exceeds-100m-monthly-tips)
7. [theblock.co](https://www.theblock.co/post/321456/jito-labs-records-78-9-million-in-monthly-fees-for-october)

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