Staff Software Engineer

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New York, NY
Senior level
Blockchain • Fintech • Software • Cryptocurrency • Web3
Leading decentralized perpetuals exchange
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer at dYdX, you'll develop high-performance financial software and APIs, contribute to the dYdX protocol, and mentor team members while ensuring secure and efficient code. You'll work on backend systems tailored for decentralized technologies in a fast-paced environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 software underlying the world’s leading decentralized exchange for advanced trading of crypto derivatives
  • 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:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field and 5 years of software development experience, including at least 3 years of experience managing core Node.js services delivering business data to various microservices using Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), EC2/Glue/S3/Athena, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Datadog.

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.

Top Skills

AWS
Docker
Express
Go
JavaScript
Kafka
Node.js
Postgres
Redis
Terraform
Typescript
Websockets
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
53 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

dYdX is the most powerful decentralized open trading platform for advanced crypto financial products, built as a standalone appchain. Trade perpetual contracts with low fees, deep liquidity, up to 20x more buying power all while maintaining full custody and control of your assets.

Why Work With Us

dYdX is on a mission to democratize access to financial opportunity. Our team has experience from top companies like Google, Coinbase, Goldman Sachs, and Facebook. We're backed by the top investors in crypto like a16z, Paradigm, and Polychain. We offer top compensation and generous benefits.

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