Venture Search
is partnering with a leading crypto-native market-making and proprietary trading firm to appoint a talented engineer to its newly established
Core Engineering team
. This team is responsible for building a world-class back-office system that will serve as the backbone of the firm's infrastructure. The successful candidate will collaborate with a seasoned group of professionals who bring extensive product, buy-side, and sell-side experience across both crypto and traditional finance (TradFi).
Key Responsibilities
* DeFi Integrations
: Collect essential on-chain data and integrate with decentralized protocols to support an accurate, real-time back-office system. Own the full development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, implementation, and post-production support, ensuring management maintains a complete and current view of all on-chain assets.
* Core Booking / Aggregation
: Develop and enhance features in the core booking and aggregation engine (e.g., realised/unrealised P&L, balances) with a focus on performance, reliability, and accuracy.
* Reconciliation
: Automate the reconciliation of trading and treasury activities by integrating data feeds from internal systems, banks, exchanges, and custodians.
* Reporting
: Partner with Finance and internal stakeholders to refine requirements, plan deliverables, demo progress, and manage cutovers from manual or legacy workflows.
* Data Products and APIs
: Build and maintain versioned APIs and event streams for downstream users, ensuring backward compatibility and schema evolution.
Ways of Working
* Adhere to established architectural and coding standards; participate in RFCs/design reviews and contribute incremental improvements.
* Write clean, well-documented code and create meaningful tests.
* Participate in peer reviews and maintain accurate technical documentation and diagrams.
* Take ownership of components end-to-end, from specification through to production support.
Required Experience
* Comprehensive knowledge of crypto asset classes, including spot, perpetuals, futures, and options (with experience in DeFi implementations).
* Hands-on experience integrating with DeFi protocols (DEX/AMM, lending, derivatives) such as Uniswap v3, Curve, and Aave.
* Proven experience delivering scalable, reliable systems in production.
* Strong ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders across Trading, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering.
Required Technical Skills
* Strong object-oriented programming background in one or more of Go, C++, C#, Java, or Rust.
* Proficiency in Typescript and Python.
* Expertise in API design, including versioning, backward compatibility, and observability.
* Solid knowledge of Postgres schema design and query optimization.
* Experience with message queue/pub-sub systems.
* Familiarity with cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure), modern CI/CD pipelines, and containerization.