Astar Foundation • Singapore; Japan
Last updated 4 weeks ago
Job description
About the Role
You will be a senior contributor within our smart contract engineering team, working closely alongside other engineers, product partners, and stakeholders to build the core systems that power high-value decentralized financial applications. This includes work on stablecoin systems, liquidity infrastructure, and broader DeFi protocols, among other emerging on-chain financial products.
You’ll design secure, scalable, and composable smart contracts used in production environments, help shape protocol architecture, and ensure a consistently high standard of security, reliability, and performance across everything the team delivers. You’ll collaborate deeply within the team to bring new on-chain ideas from concept through deployment and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Protocol Architecture & Technical Contributions
Smart Contract Development
DeFi use cases
and high-value financial logicSecurity, Testing & Reliability
audit-ready, production-quality
contracts that meet high security standardsOwnership & Execution
Own and deliver end-to-end contract development work streams, including:
Collaboration
Product and Backend engineering teams
as an active team member to refine requirements and deliver outcomesQualifications
Required Experience
4+ years
of professional software engineering experience, with strong emphasis on prototyping and new product development3-5+ years of Solidity development experience
, with proven production delivery ofaudited smart contracts
2 mainnet deployments
, ideally powering widely used or financially meaningful applicationsEVM smart contracts
and DeFi-centric developmentFoundry
or similar frameworksNice to Have
security audits
; or writing audit-ready specsstablecoin projects
, with strong understanding of how pegs are designed and maintained; familiarity with other DeFi primitives such as lending or DEXs is a plus.Location and Logistics
East Asia preferred (Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong)