DeFi Engineer- Crypto High-Frequency Trading

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London, England
7 months ago
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Requirements:

  • Significant Cex/Dex trading experience
  • Expert-level understanding of MEV
  • Guru-level understanding of Defi
  • Well-versed in blockchain fundamentals, JSON-RPC, MEV, Solidity, Solana


Desirable:

  • Expert Rust programming
  • Available to start immediately
  • Experience working with trading strategies as a quant dev, both in research (Python) and on the engine/runtime
  • Expertise in developing low-latency applications, particularly in the microseconds-to-milliseconds range (nanoseconds are not required)
  • Comfortable with AWS



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