Smart Contract Engineer

Lista Protocol is hiring across engineering roles to help build and maintain core infrastructure for a DeFi protocol focused on liquid staking, lending, collateralized debt positions, and stablecoin mechanics. We are looking for Solidity Engineers, Protocol Engineers, and Security Engineers / Smart Contract Auditors who want to work on production-grade DeFi systems. Depending on the role, you may contribute to smart contracts, protocol design, protocol upgrades, integrations, audits, testing, monitoring, and security improvements across the Lista ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain smart contracts, protocol systems, and security workflows for DeFi products. - Work on protocol features related to staking, lending, collateral, liquidity, stablecoin systems, liquidation logic, and oracle integrations. - Write high-quality unit, integration, invariant, fuzz, and simulation tests where relevant to your role. - Collaborate with engineers, auditors, researchers, product teams, and ecosystem partners to improve security and reliability. - Review smart contract and protocol changes, identify risks, and support audit preparation before release. - Monitor deployed contracts and help improve protocol operations, incident response, and risk management.

Requirements

Strong engineering experience in one or more areas: Solidity, protocol engineering, smart contract security, or auditing. - Experience with DeFi protocols such as lending markets, CDPs, liquid staking, AMMs, or stablecoins. - Familiarity with tools such as Foundry, Hardhat, ethers.js, TypeScript, Slither, Echidna, or similar. - Strong understanding of security risks relevant to your role, including smart contract vulnerabilities, oracle risk, liquidation logic, access control, upgradeability, governance risk, and economic attack vectors. - Ability to write clear tests, reason carefully about edge cases, and communicate tradeoffs. - Comfortable working in a remote, async team. Nice to Have - Experience building or auditing lending, staking, or stablecoin protocols. - Familiarity with BNB Chain, Ethereum, or multi-chain deployments. - Experience with formal verification, fuzzing, invariant testing, economic modeling, or risk parameter analysis. - Prior contributions to open-source DeFi projects.

Benefits

Remote-first work environment. - Competitive salary. - Opportunity to work on core DeFi infrastructure. - High-impact role in a growing Web3 ecosystem. - Token or performance-based incentives may be available depending on role fit.