Founding Smart Contract Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio

Dragonfly is a global, crypto-native venture capital / research firm with $4B+ in assets under management and 160+ portfolio companies, including many of the leading teams in the space.

This is an application to join our talent network. This is not a listing for an internal role at Dragonfly.

We want to connect with Smart Contract Engineers of all experience levels, backgrounds, and specializations. Our portfolio is globally distributed, with remote, hybrid, and in-person roles worldwide, building across the entire crypto ecosystem.

What We’re Looking For A senior Solidity/EVM engineer with deep experience shipping production mainnet deployments end-to-end. Strong command of core standards and patterns: upgradeability, role-gated attestation flows, Permit/Permit2, Foundry/Hardhat, and secure contract architecture. A security-first mindset; thinking in invariants, failure modes, replay protection, upgrade policies, and audit-ready code. Exceptional taste in API and interface design, writing clear, minimal, well-structured surfaces for iOS, backend, and indexing layers to depend on. Hands-on ability to lead architecture and implementation of: non-custodial escrow vaults outcome attestations sweep/refund flows indexing/observability (logs, subgraph/indexer, reliable queries) Ability to make pragmatic infrastructure decisions around key management, deployment pipelines, and reliability. Someone who thrives in fast iteration cycles and works closely with founders to keep the blockchain rails invisible to the end user.

Process:

• We’ll confidentially match you with portfolio companies aligned with your background, skill set, and interests.
• If mutual interest exists between you and a team, we’ll facilitate a warm introduction.
• If there isn’t a match today, we’ll keep you top of mind for opportunities in the future.
• Submit your information below, and we’ll reach out if there are any next steps.