Lead Kamino Market Infrastructure Software Engineer

About Us

Steakhouse Financial’s mission is to pioneer open and transparent finance. We build transparent, efficient, and accessible financial primitives to power the next generation of capital markets on public blockchains. We empower leading DAOs and crypto-native companies including Kamino, Sky (FKA MakerDAO), Lido, Morpho, Ethena, and ENS through strategy, risk, and financial advisory. Our focus areas include real world assets (RWAs), stablecoins, curating efficient lending markets, market making, and actively participating in markets via proprietary trading to enhance liquidity and overall market health.

We are gathering the best minds in finance, engineering, legal, data, and risk to build the future of finance.

About the Role:

As the Lead Kamino Market Infrastructure Software Engineer, you’ll be a force behind the software infrastructure powering efficient DeFi markets. You’ll not only develop and maintain critical systems, but also play a key role in shaping the future of Solana financial markets through your code.

Our current infrastructure already monitors and operates our Kamino and Morpho vaults across chains(#1 DeFi curator with >$1.5B TVL). We are looking for top talent to build the most robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure for vault curation as we expand with best in class partners on Solana.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own the Python market infrastructure stack for Kamino


• Develop a reallocation engine that consumes real-time on-chain and off-chain data to drive automated capital allocations making our Kamino vaults the most efficients


• Build reliable automated transaction and instruction pipelines to interact efficiently with Solana programs


• Identify data points to enhance risk monitoring and implement real-time mitigation logic directly into the infrastructure


• Create reporting tooling to support both operators and user-facing interfaces.


• Implement rigorous testing, monitoring, and security practices to ensure the reliability, performance, and resilience of the developed software tools and platforms against potential vulnerabilities and exploits

Our Ideal Candidate

We’re looking for someone with:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python including architecture, type system, testing and production lifecycle management


• 2+ years of experience developing and interacting with Solana programs


• Proven experience building production-grade applications and infrastructure in Python and/or TypeScript that operate on top of Solana programs


• Deep understanding of the Solana transaction and instruction lifecycle, with the ability to design systems optimized for performance and reliability


• Ability to write Rust programs is a plus.


• Active tracking of the Solana DeFi ecosystem, including new protocols, infrastructure improvements, and evolving usage patterns


• Entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, you are a self-starter, driven, and love building


• Familiarity with economic modeling, financial mathematics, or quantitative analysis in the context of decentralized finance.


• Not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty


• Detail oriented and very rigorous


• Proactive and autonomous


• Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work cross-functionally and translate complex financial requirements into scalable technical solutions

What’s in it for you

• Be part of an ecosystem that encourages transparency and alignment with open-source methodologies and principles.


• Participate in shaping the next financial markets, your code will move hundreds of millions on day one


• Contribute to high-impact projects that will drive the growth of decentralized finance


• Competitive compensation including bonus and equity


• $3,500 WFH stipend


• Work within a remote and highly collaborative team consisting of diverse experts


• Remote first culture with bases in New York City, Miami, and Central Europe with opportunities to travel to team events and conferences