Senior Software Engineer - Backend
dYdX · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineering$210k–$300k/yrFull-time
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.
- 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
- 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
Pay
- Salary range for this role is $210K to $300K USD (NY)