Lead Trading Infrastructure Engineer

dYdX • Full-time • New York City, NY • $175k - $270k / year • 6m ago

At dYdX you'll have an opportunity to build state-of-the-art decentralized technologies that will redefine global financial markets. By joining us at this stage in our growth, you will help make fundamental decisions that will shape the course of dYdX.

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ABOUT dYdX:

We’ve built the software underlying the world’s leading decentralized exchange for advanced trading of crypto derivatives
dYdX is founded by an ex-Coinbase, ex-Uber engineer, with a Princeton CS background. Our team has previous experience at Coinbase, Uniswap, Google, Amazon, Lyft, Meta and other top companies
We're a world-class team with top backers and advisors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam, Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, and more

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design, build, and scale decentralized matching engine, risk system, and limit order book for blockchain protocol using CosmosSDK along with its surrounding backend systems
Provide technical guidance and leadership in navigating tradeoffs (architecture, timeline, etc.)
Ensure best practices within the engineering team through guidance on architecture, code reviews, performance, testing, efficiency, and other engineering excellence improvements
Collaborate with engineers, designers, researchers and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end-to-end
Mentor and develop junior engineers

REQUIREMENTS:

8+ years experience working as a backend software engineer
Experience with trading system development at a mid/high frequency firm writing code to communicate with exchanges (i.e. order entry and low latency feed handlers)
And/or experience working on exchange infrastructure, dealing with low latency order intake, risk checks, and matching
Strong experience in a systems programming language and network programming knowledge
Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures, excellent coding skills, strong CS fundamentals, and strong debugging capabilities
Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies

Salary range for this role is $230K to $305K USD (NY). Compensation subject to experience and location. Published salary bands pursuant to transparency laws, and do not include possible variable compensation such as annual merit increases, bonus eligibility, commission, or equity incentive.