Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Remote (USA)

Reports to: Engineering Lead

Type: Full-time

About Drift

Drift is one of the leading decentralized derivatives exchanges on Solana, built for serious traders. We offer lightning-fast, capital-efficient perpetual trading and innovative earning products like Strategy Vaults and Amplify. We’re backed by top crypto-native funds and building for the next generation of DeFi traders.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to own the developer experience around Drift’s SDKs, integrations, and backend tooling. You’ll be building and improving our Rust and Python SDKs, empowering developers, market makers, and integrators to build on top of Drift seamlessly.

You’ll work closely with our engineering team to scope backend/devex projects, take on some integration and infra-light initiatives, and ensure our SDKs are reliable, well-documented, and production-ready. This is a high-leverage role: your work will directly expand Drift’s ecosystem, reduce bottlenecks for internal and external teams, and help scale adoption of the protocol.

Responsibilities

• Own the development, maintenance, and support of Drift’s Rust and Python SDKs (driftpy and related libraries)
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to prioritize backend/devex projects and integrations
• Build developer tooling, examples, and documentation to make integration seamless for traders and partners
• Ensure SDKs are kept in sync with on-chain program changes and protocol upgrades
• Debug and resolve issues from external users (traders, MM, ecosystem partners) and internal developers
• Contribute to CI/CD processes, testing, and release workflows for SDKs

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