Hybrid Backend Engineer – Market Making

at Arrakis

• Job title: Backend Engineer – Market Making
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Rust, Solidity, SQL, TCP/IP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Zug, Switzerland

About the role

• Backend Engineer creating new on-chain trading strategies and developing market making infrastructure. Collaborating with an experienced team to innovate in DeFi market-making technologies.

Responsibilities

• Creation of new on-chain trading strategies
• Monitoring, tuning and improving market making performance across chains.
• Develop backend infrastructure for our market making operations
• Develop, refine and implement strategies and infrastructure for algorithmic liquidity provisioning for the major tokens of the industry

Requirements

• Strong experience building and developing high frequency, ultra-low-latency applications
• 3+ years of experience with C++ / Rust / Solidity
• Good understanding of the financial market, order books, market making, arbitrage and/or markets microstructure
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, maths, physics, or similar field
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Experience with Google Cloud / AWS
• Experience working with containers such as Docker / Kubernetes
• Awareness of security principles for critical finance applications, both on and off-chain.
• **Nice to have:**
• Previous automated market making experience and experience with Uniswap
• Experience building your own trading bot
• CEX / DEX arbitrage experience
• Experience dealing with low level networking advantageous (TCP/IP, UDP, networking in the cloud, packet decoding, latency)
• Passionate about contributing / researching cutting edge DeFi technologies.
• Ability to know/understand smart contract code

Benefits

• Join an amazing team of industry veterans focused on revolutionising web3 market making, collaborating with major projects like MakerDAO, Uniswap, Aave, Lido, operating fully remotely with members spanning Zug, Paris, New York, Berlin, London supported by world-class investors including Uniswap Labs, Robot Ventures, Accel, Longhash, and more.
• **What we offer:**
• Competitive salary + performance-based compensation
• Equity / Token package
• Work remotely or with the Founders in person, in Switzerland
• Chance to travel the world to go to exciting events, connecting with key industry players
• Join amazing in-person offsites all over the world