Staff Software Engineer at dYdX Trading

At dYdX you'll have an opportunity to build state-of-the-art decentralized technologies that will redefine global financial markets. By joining us at this stage in our growth, you will help make fundamental decisions that will shape the course of dYdX. RESPONSIBILITIES: Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a day worth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & Websocket API endpoints. Develop open source blockchain-based code that powers the dYdX protocol. Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app as well as programmatic traders. Architect performant and reliable backend systems. Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product. Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise. Mentor and develop other team members on design techniques, and coding standards. REQUIREMENTS: Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field and 5 years of software development experience, including at least 3 years of experience managing core Node.js services delivering business data to various microservices using Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), EC2/Glue/S3/Athena, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Datadog. Salary range for this role is $230K to $305K USD (NY). Compensation subject to experience and location. Published salary bands pursuant to transparency laws, and do not include possible variable compensation such as annual merit increases, bonus eligibility, commission, or equity incentive.