Principal Software Engineer — Trade & Blockchain at GRVT

<h2><strong><u>What You’ll Do</u></strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write and own substantial amounts of production code in the most complex, high-risk, and business-critical areas of the platform.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take end-to-end ownership of system behavior in production, especially under failure, stress, or adversarial conditions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Operate confidently in ambiguous problem spaces, defining constraints, risks, and execution paths when clarity does not yet exist.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Anticipate and neutralize systemic technical, operational, and product risks through careful design, invariants, and operational discipline.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Simplify complex systems by eliminating accidental complexity, unsafe patterns, and brittle abstractions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Set technical direction primarily through reference implementations, durable abstractions, and sustained ownership of core systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Act as one of the strongest technical coaches on the team through high-signal code reviews, design discussions, and example.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Influence product and technical decisions by deeply understanding system behavior, user incentives, and long-term trade-offs.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Participate actively in incident response, and ensure durable improvements through root-cause analysis and follow-through.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Raise the bar for correctness, reliability, and operability by making the right designs and behaviors the default for others.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2><strong><u>What We’re Looking For</u></strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re looking for exceptional individual contributors who consistently demonstrate strong performance across our core competencies, and who provide outsized leverage through a small number of exceptional strengths.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">In particular, you should have:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A track record of owning and evolving complex, production-critical systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Exceptional engineering judgment in ambiguous, high-risk, or adversarial environments.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deep comfort reasoning about failure modes, edge cases, and second- or third-order effects.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong operational ownership, including designing for observability, safe failure, and recoverability.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">The ability to simplify complex systems without losing essential correctness or safety.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A demonstrated ability to influence others through code quality, design clarity, and technical credibility.</p></li><li><p