As a Technology intern at Caladan, you will gain first-hand experience working closely with top engineers, quants and traders as part of small teams doing real work.
Close to 40% of our Engineering team are former interns and have gone on to a wide variety of roles, some are now even acting as mentors for the next group of interns!
Dates
Our experience is that internships prove most valuable when interns have context and are comfortable within the environment so we prioritise those that are able to commit to longer internships from May - December 2025.
In 2025 we are looking for interns to embed into various teams:
Algo Development
- Optimising existing trading strategies and developing new algo logic
- Analysing trade data and supporting primary research
Software Development
- Building connectivity to new ventures, exploring new blockchains and protocols
- Developing and maintaining services and automations that support the firms core trading capabilities
Who is this aimed at?
- 3rd or 4th year undergraduates or Masters students studying a STEM or adjacent subject
- Proactive programmers with hands on experience coding in Python, C++ or C#
- Inquisitive, Curious, who want to understand the ‘why?’ and ‘what if?’ as much as the ‘how?’
Internship Outcomes
- Gain insights into the fintech and high frequency trading industries
- Enhance coding skills; get exposed to new tools and programming languages
- Hands-on experience to apply computer science studies in a professional environment
- Experience in an agile startup environment
- Improve communication (both oral and written) skills and interpersonal effectiveness
- One-on-one mentorship from our software engineers
Caladan makes digital asset markets more efficient and fair. We support exchanges, tokens, and institutional investors with on-exchange liquidity, DeFi expertise, treasury solutions, and investments. Since 2017 we've been a pioneer in crypto market-making, powering over $50B in annual transactions across 1000+ assets.
Top Skills
What We Do
Caladan is a technology-driven trading group that transacts over $2B daily in cryptoassets on 40+ exchanges, both centralized and decentralized. Since 2017, we have consistently generated exceptional returns (aka alpha). We were one of the first movers in quantitative trading on the blockchain, and today we operate thousands of algorithms 24/7 on a globally distributed network of trading servers.
We are actively hiring for engineers and strategists - http://caladan.xyz
