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Aave Labs is seeking a Solutions Engineer to join the Business Development team, sitting at the intersection of engineering and business development. This role is critical to helping partners successfully integrate with and build on top of Aave's infrastructure—translating commercial opportunities into clear, scalable technical solutions.
You will work across Product, Engineering, and Business Development to develop, package, and document solutions built around Aave's earn and borrow products. This is a hands-on role focused on building reference architectures, prototypes, and integration materials that enable partners to adopt Aave's infrastructure quickly and confidently.
Key responsibilities include:
- Collaborating with Business Development and Product during pre-sales engagements to architect and present tailored integration solutions
- Developing and packaging solution materials around Aave's earn and borrow products that help partners visualize how Aave fits into their existing stack and broader product strategy
- Equipping Business Development with technical assets, documentation, and prototypes needed to present solutions to partners effectively
- Designing and documenting reference architectures, SDK templates, and integration patterns that reduce friction and accelerate partner adoption
- Building and testing proofs of concept, demos, and example integrations that showcase best practices and unlock partner momentum
- Troubleshooting and resolving technical challenges during integration, ensuring smooth launches and strong post-deployment performance
- Working closely with Engineering and Product to relay partner needs, surface technical insights, and influence roadmap priorities
- Keeping internal stakeholders aligned on timelines, dependencies, and progress across multiple concurrent partner integrations
About Aave Labs: Aave Labs built the Aave Protocol, now the world's largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech. The company builds trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally. The culture emphasizes building trusted products that help people access economic opportunities, holding a high bar for quality and craftsmanship, staying aligned while moving quickly, and thinking long term with lean, focused teams.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in solutions architecture, partner engineering, or blockchain development, ideally within Fintech, Crypto, or Web3
- Strong technical fluency and ability to understand and read Solidity, Typescript, and Rust (hands-on coding experience is a plus)
- Proven ability to translate business goals and partner requirements into clear, scalable technical designs
- Excellent communication skills, with ability to confidently engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort managing multiple partner integrations simultaneously, operating autonomously, and maintaining momentum across projects
- Strong curiosity for DeFi and genuine enthusiasm for how open financial infrastructure is evolving
