Jobs at Aave Labs

Create and present social-first video content for Aave Labs, developing ideas, scripts, interviews, explainers, event coverage, and recurring formats. Monitor trends and platform behavior, film and perform basic edits, and collaborate with the video team on final production. Translate complex finance and crypto topics into accessible stories, respond quickly to timely opportunities, and use audience feedback and performance data to improve content. The role requires a confident on-camera presence, strong writing and interviewing skills, and a portfolio of social content.

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.

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.

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.

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