dYdX is hiring a
Senior Trading Infrastructure Engineer in United States

Summary

dYdX is hiring a Senior Trading Infrastructure Engineer to build decentralized technologies for their exchange platform using CosmosSDK. The engineer will lead technical guidance, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. They require 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, trading system development expertise, and strong systems programming skills.

Requirements

• 5+ 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

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

Benefits

Salary range for this role is $175K to $270K USD (NY)