Senior Software Engineer - Backend

dYdX · New York, NY

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About the role

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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Responsibilities

Contribute to the core trading engine. Optimize for throughput, latency, and correctness under high-concurrency across many trading pairs.
Own real-time market infrastructure. Build the pipelines that process, aggregate, and distribute order book updates, trades, and market events to traders.
Build for 24/7 uptime. The exchange doesn't rest. Design systems for seamless upgradeability, horizontal scalability, and zero-downtime deploys.
Shape the architecture as we scale. Make foundational technical decisions about how the platform evolves as we add asset classes and increase throughput.

Requirements

5+ years experience working as a full-time developer
You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a good understanding of CS fundamentals
Experience building or integrating with trading systems.
Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures, excellent coding skills, and strong debugging capabilities.
Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.

Nice To Haves

Experience or interest in decentralized finance.

Salary range for this role is $210K to $300K 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.

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