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As a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) bank, ether.fi offers a fully integrated, non-custodial suite of products (Stake, Liquid, and Cash) that bridge crypto utility with real-world convenience.\nNonce is the team behind ether.fi 's DeFi yield vaults, the products that take user deposits and put them to work across DeFi. A depositor gets a single position and a yield-bearing token. Behind it sits a mandate, a set of whitelisted protocols and strategies, live NAV accounting, and a redemption path that has to stay honest whether the market is calm or not. The whole job is deploying into lending markets, LSTs and LRTs, basis and funding trades, stablecoin strategies, and whatever comes next, safely, with the risk understood before the capital moves.\nIt's a small team with a lot of autonomy. Every vault, every rebalance, and every new protocol integration goes through this team.\nLearn more at ether.fi.\nPosition overview\nWe're hiring a smart contract / backend engineer to help build and operate ether.fi 's DeFi yield vaults. You'll write the contracts that allocate user capital, build the tooling/systems that runs 365/24/7 to safely monitor and manage the capital.\nThe immediate focus is the next generation of Nonce's vault product to power one of the largest DeFi yield vaults products in the industry. Getting that right, and keeping it secure, is the main thing this role is here to do.\nThis is a build-and-operate role. You'll ship Solidity and backend services, and you'll also share the day-to-day of running live vaults: discussing new yield opportunities, reviewing transactions, signing them, and deciding whether a new protocol is safe to allocate into. The team is small, so the people who write the vaults are the people who run them.\nThis role is onsite 4 days per week at one of our global offices: NYC, Denver, or the Cayman Islands.\nWhat you'll work on\nVaults\nDesign, write, deploy, and configure yield vault smart contracts alongside the rest of the vault team\n\nBuild vault tooling: putting on trades, rebalancing across strategies, updating vault policies and whitelists, admin configuration\n\nExtend the vault architecture as new yield strategies, assets, and chains come online\n\nReview teammates' contracts and tooling, and get reviewed in turn\n\nProve the contracts do what they claim: unit and fuzz tests, invariants, and formal verification where it earns its keep\n\nWork with external auditors through review cycles, and write contracts that are straightforward to audit in the first place\n\nBackend services\nBuild and maintain the critical systems that run 365/24/7 without failure: the solver powering redemption flows, 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