Gauntlet · 10 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer: Trading Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$165K/yr - $205K/yr
6+ years expGauntlet is a leader in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics, managing significant market risk and growth for decentralized finance protocols. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their derivatives trading team, responsible for building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers their trading systems and product offerings.
FinanceFinTechCrypto & Web3SoftwareBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinancial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and operate scalable distributed systems in production
Build low-latency and streaming systems for real-time and near real-time workloads
Develop data pipelines and ETL workflows for ingesting, transforming, and serving data
Build and maintain application services and APIs used by internal and external systems
Implement Web3 protocol integrations, including smart contract interactions and on-chain data ingestion via RPCs, logs, and indexers
Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, observability, and operational correctness
Participate in incident response, debugging production issues and driving root-cause fixes
Contribute to system design and code reviews, maintaining high engineering standards
Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and system understanding, while exercising strong engineering judgment
Write and maintain technical documentation for systems and workflows
Qualification
Required
6+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
Experience building low-latency or high-throughput systems
Experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems
Hands-on experience with Web3 systems, including interacting with smart contracts and consuming on-chain data
Experience with streaming or messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, Pub/Sub)
Experience with data storage systems (e.g. Postgres, ClickHouse)
Experience deploying and operating software in cloud environments (e.g. GCP)
Familiarity with containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes)
Understanding of SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
Strong understanding of security fundamentals (authentication, authorization, secrets management)
Preferred
Previous experience at financial or trading firms
Smart contract development experience (e.g. Solidity)
Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g. Dagster)
Experience operating systems with strict reliability or performance requirements
Exposure to infrastructure as code or CI/CD systems
Benefits
Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation
Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
Laptop provided
$1,000 WFH stipend upon joining
$100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
Unlimited vacation policy
100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
Fertility benefits
Company
Gauntlet
Gauntlet is a fintech company that develops solutions for risk management and simplifies tasks in cryptocurrency businesses.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$44.79MKey Investors
Uniswap FoundationRibbit CapitalPolychain
2023-04-11Grant
2022-03-14Series B· $23.8M
2021-06-04Series A· $13.63M
Leadership Team
Tarun Chitra
Founder, CEO
John Morrow
Co-founder and COO
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