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Founding Protocol Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio

DragonflySan Francisco, CA, United States

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Founding Protocol Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio

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Dragonfly is a crypto-native Venture Capital and research firm with $4B+ in assets under management and 160+ portfolio companies . Our Talent team works to support the recruiting efforts of the companies within our portfolio by connecting them with talented potential candidates.

One of our portfolio companies is hiring a Founding Protocol Engineer to lead smart contract development and incentive design for a high-scale consumer crypto protocol already live with strong usage.

What We’re Looking For

3+ years as a solidity engineer
5+ years as a software engineer
Experience building protocols at scale ($10M+ TVL or 10k+ users)
Experience working at a startup

About The Role

You’ll lead protocol development for a consumer-focused crypto project with real traction and ambitious scale. Your work will include :

Designing and implementing smart contracts from scratch, not just iterating on existing DeFi primitives

Co-leading fee and incentive design, including tokenomics and dynamic pricing curves

Researching and developing new mechanisms around randomness, composability, and scalability

Owning key integrations with cross-chain infrastructure and third-party protocols

Working directly with the founding team (including protocol and consumer product veterans) to define technical strategy and roadmap

Other Roles We’re Hiring For

If this isn’t the right fit, we’re also hiring engineers across the Dragonfly portfolio—particularly those focused on protocol development, L1 / L2 infra, MEV, ZK, and developer tooling. Many of these roles are early technical hires with ownership from day one.

Process

We’ll confidentially match you with relevant portfolio companies.

If mutual interest exists, we’ll facilitate a warm introduction.

If there isn’t an immediate match, we’ll keep you in mind for future roles.

Our portfolio companies are globally distributed, hiring for remote, hybrid, and in-person roles worldwide. They’re building across the entire crypto ecosystem—including DeFi, CeFi, infrastructure, L1s and L2s, creator / consumer applications, NFTs, ZK, and more. All candidate submissions are strictly confidential.

Submit your information below, and we’ll be in touch if there’s a potential fit.

Equal Employment Opportunity statement : Dragonfly is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.

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