dYdX is hiring Web3 Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer
Experience
Minimum 1 Year
Employee type
Full Time
Position
Senior
Offer Salary
$115 - $165
Desired Qualifications
- 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.
Duties & 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.
Our Company
- We’ve built the world’s leading decentralized exchange for crypto assets
- dYdX is founded by an ex-Coinbase, ex-Uber engineer, with a Princeton CS background. Our team has previous experience at Google, Bloomberg, Amazon, Bain, NerdWallet, Facebook, Lyft 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