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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Remote · Italy Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. dYdX is a company focused on building state-of-the-art decentralized technologies that will redefine global financial markets. The role involves contributing to the core trading engine, optimizing for performance, and shaping the architecture as the platform scales.

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

Skills

  • 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

Company Overview

  • dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.dydx.xyz.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • dYdX has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 4 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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