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Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Dydx
New YorkHybrid5y ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience or interest in decentralized finance.
Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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