Jobs at Aave Labs

Create high-quality video content for Aave’s social and digital channels, including product launches, campaigns, events, interviews, and storytelling. Edit raw footage into engaging narratives with strong hooks, pacing, sound, and visual storytelling. Collaborate with Marketing and Design, adapt content for different platforms and audiences, follow social trends, and help maintain Aave’s video style and creative standards.

Lead Aave Labs’ global compliance strategy across regulated and unregulated businesses, products, entities, and jurisdictions. Advise executives and Boards, oversee AML/CTF, sanctions, transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, risk assessments, and compliance controls. Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Operations, and Commercial teams on new products and markets, manage regulator relationships, and ensure FCA fitness and propriety requirements are met for UK regulated entities.

Lead global operations for a growing financial technology business, including operational strategy, scalable processes, customer experience, complaints management, vendor performance, KPIs, automation, resilience, and regulatory oversight. The role serves as PCF-42 Chief Operating Officer and CF-8 Complaints Adjudicator for an Irish regulated entity, partnering with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Security, and Support while building and developing the Operations organization.

Design, implement, test, and deploy secure Solidity smart contracts across Ethereum and EVM networks. Own smart contract projects, contribute to Aave protocol initiatives and infrastructure, investigate vulnerabilities, troubleshoot production issues, review code, and collaborate on DeFi features including lending, vaults, stablecoins, and protocol integrations.

Act as technical lead for partner integrations: scope, design, build proofs-of-concept, document reference architectures, troubleshoot integrations, and liaise between partners, product, and engineering to accelerate adoption.

Conduct attacker-driven security research on Aave protocol changes, smart contracts, integrations, and critical dependencies. Review architecture and code before audits or deployment, identify exploitable protocol risks, contribute to AI-assisted security tooling, and translate findings into invariants, testing, monitoring, and incident-response improvements. Collaborate with engineers, auditors, and monitoring teams while communicating risk, severity, uncertainty, and trade-offs clearly.

Build and improve high-quality web products and reusable design-system components. Own frontend performance, including data loading, caching, server rendering, and streaming. Apply strong product judgment to complex UX problems and collaborate with designers, engineers, and product leaders. Work autonomously across products, establish frontend quality standards, and help elevate team practices through technical leadership and craftsmanship.

Lead the iOS engineering team and technical architecture for Aave App. Build secure blockchain functionality including wallets, private keys, transaction signing, RPC interactions, gas estimation, and onchain data flows. Establish standards for Swift and UIKit development, testing, observability, performance, release safety, and incident response. Remain hands-on with foundational architecture and security-sensitive features while mentoring engineers and partnering with product, design, backend, protocol, and security teams.

Provide corporate and commercial legal support for strategic partnerships, acquisitions, asset purchases, acqui-hires, and digital-asset transactions. Draft and negotiate commercial and transaction agreements, conduct legal due diligence, advise on regulatory and intellectual property issues, support partner integrations, and develop contracting processes and legal playbooks. Collaborate with business, product, senior stakeholders, and external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of Push, a regulated non-custodial financial product. Design resilient backend services for payment initiation, transaction tracking, settlement, exceptions, notifications, partner integrations, blockchain execution, and customer wallets. Establish secure architecture, testing, observability, incident response, deployment, and on-call standards while leading engineers through complex, high-impact work and partnering with product, compliance, legal, security, operations, and finance teams.

Build and ship secure, accessible, high-performance consumer experiences for Aave App across Android and web using React Native, TypeScript, and React. Own product features from technical design through release, integrate wallet and blockchain functionality, collaborate with design and engineering teams, contribute to application architecture, and maintain robust testing, debugging, and cross-platform reliability.

Build and operate backend infrastructure for Aave App, including account and wallet services, transaction orchestration, blockchain indexing, balances, yield data, funding, withdrawals, notifications, and APIs. Design reliable distributed systems integrating smart contracts, RPC providers, payment partners, and external services. Lead technical reviews and improve testing, observability, incident response, deployment practices, documentation, and engineering standards for systems handling financial data and customer transactions.

The Strategy & Business Development Associate will drive strategic initiatives, support business growth, coordinate cross-functional teams, and engage in market research within Aave Labs.

Open, speculative call for candidates interested in building the future of the internet. No specific role or responsibilities listed; company will contact applicants if a suitable opportunity arises.

Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain secure Solidity smart contracts and dApps on Ethereum and EVM networks; develop protocol-level infrastructure; respond to and simulate security incidents; debug, review code for security, and mentor other engineers while staying current with Ethereum ecosystem developments.

Lead and develop the Risk team, own the risk management frameworks, coordinate with external providers, and ensure optimal risk posture for protocol.