Head of Trading Systems & Matching — Equity Cofounder

Autheo; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Launch Legends

Equity in Autheo

THEO allocation

Job summary

Launch Legends, the parent of Autheo, seeks a Head of Trading Systems to build the on-chain matcher and related latency-sensitive components. This part-time equity Cofounder role sits at the nexus of Autheo’s live markets and DevHub, shaping the core matching engine and exchange architecture.

You will report to the GM for Markets, own the engine design, and collaborate with risk, infra, and product teams to deliver a scalable, deterministic trading platform.

Qualifications

• Has shipped a live matching engine, or the core of one, on a venue with real orders.
• Can defend price-time priority, cancel/replace, self-trade prevention, and sequence gaps on a whiteboard without notes.
• Writes hot path in Rust or Go. Solidity acceptable for settlement, not for matching.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the trading system: central limit order book, matching, cancel/replace, self-trade prevention, and fair sequencing.
• Define v1 order types and latency targets; ensure determinism under load.
• Publish a clear failure spec and provide a replay log format to reconstruct sessions.
• Lead the first two engineers after the spec is written; a team without a spec is a club.

Job description

Launch Legends, the parent of Autheo, seeks a Head of Trading Systems to build the on-chain matcher and related latency-sensitive components. This part-time equity Cofounder role sits at the nexus of Autheo’s live markets and DevHub, shaping the core matching engine and exchange architecture.

You will report to the GM for Markets, own the engine design, and collaborate with risk, infra, and product teams to deliver a scalable, deterministic trading platform.