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USD* is fully collateralized and earns yield from diversified, real sources such as delta-neutral strategies and secured borrow-lend market positions. Its value grows automatically, making it a simple, secure way to save on-chain.\nUSD* is fully collateralized by a diversified portfolio of yield-generating assets and positions, including:\nDelta-neutral hedged positions on centralized and decentralized exchanges (e.g., BTC, ETH, SOL)\nSecured borrow-lend market positions involving on-chain stablecoins\nReal-world assets, such as the reinsurance fund by OnRe\nPerena actively manages asset allocation and diversifies across multiple strategies to reduce single points of failure and optimize for sustainable, consistent yield performance.\nBuilt on Solana’s high-performance blockchain, Perena is creating a liquid, yield-bearing digital dollar that anyone can access with a sustainable, risk-managed approach.\nLooking ahead, Perena is building a full suite of on-chain stablebanking products to expand access to real yield across crypto and traditional finance. The goal is a sustainable financial experience for anyone to transact, save, and invest on-chain.\nPerena is founded by a team of builders from the Solana ecosystem with backgrounds in TradFi and DeFi. We believe deeply in pushing financial architecture forward — and in doing it with transparency, resilience, and speed.\nWe’re backed by some of the best in the world, including:\n\nSolana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal\n\nInvestors from Citadel, Jane Street, IMC, and Susquehanna\n\nBorderless Capital, Binance Labs, Primitive Ventures, Maelstrom, Anagram, Breed, and others\n\nPerena was a sponsor of the Colosseum Hackathon Stablecoin Track, helping fund the next generation of stablecoin projects on Solana. Our growing community spans over 20,000 developers, users, and builders aligned around one goal: reinventing how money works.\nWhat You’ll do\nTurn ambiguous product ideas into well-designed, production-ready systems. This person should be able to challenge requirements, make sound architectural decisions, write the technical plan, and deliver quickly with limited supervision.\n\nDesign flow-of-funds orchestration across venues and chains — bridging, routing, rebalancing between custodial and non-custodial systems — with reliable settlement, reconciliation, and failure handling as first-class concerns\n\nDevelop custody and key management patterns that meet institutional-grade security requirements across custodial and non-custodial environments\n\nBuild on-chain settlement and payment flows, including integrations with DEXs, lending markets, custodians, and bridge infrastructure — starting on Solana (Rust) and extending across EVM and other chains as we scale\n\nBuild and maintain the systems that move Perena's money: minting/redeeming USD*, allocating collateral, and routing capital between on-chain protocols, centralized custodians/exchanges, and partner bank rails\n\nWhat We’re Looking ForDefining characteristics\n3+ years building financial systems where correctness and settlement guarantees are non-negotiable — payment rails, custody/settlement infrastructure, or trading systems\n\nBuilt and shipped a DeFi, fintech, trading, or infrastructure product in a small team.\n\nHas owned meaningful systems from design through production.\n\nStrong smart-contract and backend/infrastructure fundamentals.\n\nExperience with EVM; Solana experience is valuable.\n\nUnderstands vaults, asset management, yield products, or onchain financial primitives.\n\nFamiliar with institutional concerns such as custody, permissions, compliance integrations, accounting, and operational controls.\n\nIdeally a former founder or early engineer—even if the company or protocol ultimately failed.\n\nComfortable working directly with founders and translating commercial opportunities into scoped products.\n\nDefining characteristics\nProduct-minded: Begins with the user, business objective, and operating constraints (not just the requested implementation)\n\nHigh agency: Identifies gaps, proposes solutions, and keeps moving without waiting for granular direction.\n\nBias for action: can take a half-formed spec and run with it, iterating quickly rather than waiting for full direction.\n\nArchitecturally credible: Someone whose judgment on system design can be trusted with minimal oversight.\n\nConstructively challenging: Pushes back when requirements are unclear, risky, or cannot meet a proposed timeframe.\n\nClear communicator: Produces concise technical specifications before significant implementation \n\nEarlier in your career? Apply anyway if you can show real campaign ownership, sharp writing, and a clear point of view on the market.\nWhy Perena?Stablecoins are transforming how the world stores, moves, and grows value — and we’re still early. This is a once-in-a-generation shift: from legacy money to programmable, accessible, internet-native finance. Building here isn’t just technically interesting — it’s globally meaningful.\nWe own our future — we trust each other to take initiative. Voices are heard and outcomes matter.\nWe treat our work as craft — thoughtful, opinionated, and precise.Many of us come from design, art, or cultural backgrounds.\nWe think from first principles — Perena is a reimagining of financial infrastructure. That starts with reimagining how we build.\nWe work in public — we value clarity, writing, and sharing progress openly within the team and with our community.\nOriginally posted on Himalayas","description_format":"text","description_chars":5641,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Blockchain & Crypto","Cryptocurrencies","Stablecoins"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-18T14:28:31Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/perena-senior-protocol-product-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/perena-senior-protocol-product-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T22:03:45Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1059,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":9125},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=9125"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fperena-senior-protocol-product-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fperena-senior-protocol-product-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fperena-senior-protocol-product-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/perena-senior-protocol-product-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fperena-senior-protocol-product-engineer"}]}