Brokerage Engineering

Role Description:

• Own the build out of an institutional grade crypto trading system.
• Manage engineering and design personnel to complete complex builds as they relate to trade execution, settlement, and accounting.
• Continually improve the operational processes of the trading desk
• Maintaining relationships with our execution service providers and collaborating in build-outs and trouble-shooting.

Qualifications:

• You have strong mathematical and analytical skills (including Calculus and Statistics).
• You have meaningful experience developing trading systems at a bank, asset manager, and/or a hedge fund.
• You've built up a deep understanding of market micro-structure and algorithmic trading.
• You have a strong sense of trading desk accounting practices involving both agency and principal models.
• You're able to clearly communicate through written reports and visual aids (charts, graphs, analysis, etc.).
• You're genuinely interested in learning more about blockchain technology and the crypto industry..
• You have experience with modern protocols such as gRPC, GraphQL and REST.
• You’re comfortable navigating environments that are constantly changing, such as a high growth startup.
• You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Bonus Points:

• You have production experience with Go or other strongly typed programming languages.
• You have a deep familiarity with cryptographic primitives like hash functions, elliptic curve cryptography, ring signatures, ZK-Snarks, etc.
• You've developed mathematical skill in any of the following fields: Formal Methods, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory
• You've built up a knowledge base around distributed systems theory and failure models.
• You have experience running blockchain nodes or mining rigs.
• You're familiar with investment frameworks.
• You've seen and were emotionally moved by the musical Hamilton (the founder of our nation's financial system :).

Company Benefits (Mid-Pandemic):

• 100% coverage of health, dental, & vision for you and your dependents.
• One Medical Membership.
• Pre-tax commuter/parking benefits.
• 401(k) plan & FSA.
• Flexible, guilt-free, vacation policy.
• Monthly mental health day.
• Home workstation budget.
• Employee training & development.
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company.