Staff Software Engineer
$230k – $305k
Published: 6 days ago
dYdX
The world's leading decentralized exchange for crypto assets
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Staff Software Engineer
(Location: New York, NY - Hybrid)
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 world’s leading decentralized exchange for advanced trading of crypto assets
- 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:
- Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a day worth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & Websocket API endpoints.
- Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the dYdX protocol.
- Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app as well as programmatic traders.
- Architect performant and reliable backend systems.
- Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product.
- Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
- Mentor and develop other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years experience working as a full-time developer.
- You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
- You have experience with or are open to learning JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Express, WebSockets, Docker, AWS, Terraform.
- You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.
NICE TO HAVES:
- You've worked on high quality products in the finance or security space
- You have experience building & operating complex, highly reliable distributed systems involving microservices and APIs
- An interest in full-stack development. Experience building and architecting backend Web Services, as well as Web or Mobile applications
- You have a strong interest in decentralized finance
- You have experience building blockchain applications, or smart contracts
- You have experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- CS Degree or equivalent experience
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.
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