Jobs at Aave Labs

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.

Design, build, and operate backend infrastructure for DeFi protocols and vault products. Responsibilities include vault management and curation systems, constraint-based allocation systems, blockchain indexing, data-ingestion pipelines, APIs, and production services supporting quantitative models. The role requires collaboration with quant and smart contract engineers, ownership of production systems, and strong focus on correctness, reliability, performance, and security.

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 institutional adoption of Aave products (Horizon, Aave Protocol, GHO) by developing go-to-market strategy, building strategic partnerships, shaping product direction with cross-functional teams, and representing Aave at industry events to grow distribution and market share.

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