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dYdXdYdXNew York, NY

Staff Software Engineer

Build and architect low-latency financial trading software, order matching engines, and blockchain protocols for high-volume decentralized trading. Requires 5+ years experience with Node.js backend services, AWS, Terraform, and PostgreSQL.

230k – 305k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

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

  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 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: $230K to $305K USD (NY). Compensation subject to experience and location.

Skills

Node.jsTerraformAWSPostgresDatadogEC2S3AthenaGlueWebsocketREST APIsBlockchain
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