Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

dYdX is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team in New York, NY. The company is building decentralized technologies to redefine global financial markets. The Staff Software Engineer will play a crucial role in shaping the direction of dYdX.

dYdX is founded by an ex-Coinbase, ex-Uber engineer, with a Princeton CS background. Their team has experience at Coinbase, Uniswap, Google, Amazon, Lyft, Meta and other top companies.

Responsibilities:

• Write low latency financial software.
• Develop open source blockchain-based code.
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs.
• Architect performant and reliable backend systems.
• Work with multi-functional teams.
• Manage individual projects priorities and deadlines.
• Mentor and develop other team members.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5 years of software development experience.
• 3 years of experience managing core Node.js services.
• Experience with Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), EC2/Glue/S3/Athena, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Datadog.

dYdX offers:

• Opportunity to build state-of-the-art decentralized technologies.