Senior Backend Engineer - On-chain Market Making

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Switzerland
Mid level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop and enhance on-chain trading strategies and backend infrastructure for automated market-making, while monitoring performance across multiple chains. Your role includes building high-frequency, low-latency applications in a team focused on the future of DeFi.
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Description

Arrakis aims to disrupt the current market-making industry by providing the infrastructure to enable every project in the world that wants to launch a token to benefit from non-custodial, trust-less, and automated on-chain market-making strategies. We believe in a world where every organisation, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded on-chain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.

As one of our Backend Developers within market making, you will be further contributing to the cutting edge development of Arrakis, working with a very experienced and high performing team to create the future of DeFi. 

What you will achieve: 

  • Creation of new on-chain trading strategies
  • Monitoring, tuning and improving market making performance across chains.
  • Develop backend infrastructure for our market making operations
  • Develop, refine and implement strategies and infrastructure for algorithmic liquidity provisioning for the major tokens of the industry
Requirements
  • Strong experience building and developing high frequency, ultra-low-latency applications
  • 3+ years of experience with C++ / Rust
  • Good understanding of the financial market, order books, market making, arbitrage and/or markets microstructure
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, maths, physics, or similar field
  • Experience working with SQL databases
  • Experience with Google Cloud / AWS
  • Experience working with containers such as Docker / Kubernetes
  • Awareness of security principles for critical finance applications, both on and off-chain.

Nice to have:

  • Previous automated market making experience and experience with Uniswap
  • Experience building your own trading bot
  • CEX / DEX arbitrage experience
  • Experience dealing with low level networking advantageous (TCP/IP, UDP, networking in the cloud, packet decoding, latency)
  • Passionate about contributing / researching cutting edge DeFi technologies.
  • Ability to know/understand smart contract code
Benefits

Join an amazing team of industry veterans focused on revolutionising web3 market making, collaborating with major projects like MakerDAO, Uniswap, Aave, Lido, operating fully remotely with members spanning Zug, Paris, New York, Berlin, London supported by world-class investors including Uniswap Labs, Robot Ventures, Accel, Longhash, and more.

What we offer:

  • Competitive salary + performance-based compensation
  • SPICE token package
  • Work remotely or with the Founders in person, in Switzerland
  • Chance to travel the world to go to exciting events, connecting with key industry players 
  • Join amazing in-person offsites all over the world

Top Skills

C++
Rust
The Company
HQ: Zug
34 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Built on Uniswap v3, Arrakis offers trustless market making infrastructure & strategies to create deep liquidity for crypto assets

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