Open Markets Architect – Quantitative Trading & Liquidity

The POD Network; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of core trading surface

Competitive salary + upside

High-impact role

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Pod Network is seeking a markets-focused engineer to own the trading and markets layer, including the order book, perpetuals engine, risk and margin systems, and leverage logic. This is a markets-first role where you translate market knowledge into production code and partner with external market makers to bootstrap liquidity across new venues.

You will design, test, and optimize core trading modules and collaborate with researchers on incentive design and settlement models in a fast-moving

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of market microstructure: order books, matching, derivatives (perpetuals), margin, liquidation, and funding mechanics.
• Hands-on experience in market making, quant trading, or designing/operating exchange and trading systems.
• Ability to translate markets knowledge into production code (Python, Rust, C++, Go) and reason about correctness and edge cases under live trading conditions.

Responsibilities

• Improve and maintain Pod's core trading modules: order book, perpetuals engine, risk engine, and leverage/margin systems.
• Configure and tune market parameters - funding, fees, tick/lot sizes, margin tiers, liquidation thresholds - as you launch and operate new markets.
• Design and ship novel on-chain financial primitives: vaults, proprietary/protocol AMMs, prediction markets, and other derivatives.
• Build and operate Pod's internal market maker, and partner with external market makers to deepen liquidity.
• Monitor live markets for health, risk, and anomalies, iterating on parameters and safeguards in response to real flow.
• Work closely with research on incentive design, batch auction mechanics, and settlement models.

Skills

Market microstructure

Market making / quant trading

Production-grade coding

Tools

Python

Rust

C++

Go

Job description

Pod Network is seeking a markets-focused engineer to own the trading and markets layer, including the order book, perpetuals engine, risk and margin systems, and leverage logic. This is a markets-first role where you translate market knowledge into production code and partner with external market makers to bootstrap liquidity across new venues.

You will design, test, and optimize core trading modules and collaborate with researchers on incentive design and settlement models in a fast-moving