Senior Backend Engineer - Market Making

1 day ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

Arrakis aims to disrupt the current market-making industry by providing the infrastructure to enable every project in the world that wants to launch a token to benefit from non-custodial, trust-less, and automated on-chain market-making strategies. We believe in a world where every organisation, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded on-chain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.

As one of our Backend Developers within market making, you will be further contributing to the cutting edge development of Arrakis, working with a very experienced and high performing team to create the future of DeFi.

What you will achieve:

• 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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Arrakis by 2x

Sign in to set job alerts for “Back End Developer” roles.

Software Engineer (80-100%, all genders)

Software Engineer (80-100%, all genders)

Fullstack Software Engineer (AI-powered)

Don't see what you are looking for? (Zurich location)

Full-Stack Engineer - Front-end Focus (m/f/d) for Jua

Mid-level - Senior Software Engineer - Financial Reporting

2025 Off-cycle Internship Program - Tech – Software Engineer – ZH

R&D Engineer Internship at a MedTech Startup

Robotics Software Engineer Internship - Autonomy

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.