Senior DeFi Trading Infrastructure Engineer

Global Trading Systems; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily Meal Allowance

Equinox Corporate Membership Rate

Snacks

Office Game Room

Casual Dress

Job summary

Global Trading Systems is seeking a Senior DeFi Trading Systems Engineer to build and scale high-performance trading infrastructure for automated market making, liquidity provision, and on-chain execution across DeFi protocols.

The role combines deep C++ engineering with hands-on institutional DeFi experience and a strong understanding of smart contracts, AMMs, and blockchain execution. Hybrid work in New York is offered with competitive salary.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of C++ programming experience in institutional systems.
• Previous institutional DeFi software-engineering experience, including building production DeFi market-making or other performance-sensitive systems.
• Strong understanding of AMMs, including pricing, liquidity ranges, position behavior, fees, and execution costs.
• Hands-on Solidity programming experience, with the ability to read, test, and debug smart contracts and reason about EVM execution, transaction failures, permissions, and upgrade mechanisms.
• Understanding of on-chain execution nuances such as transaction ordering and MEV related execution risks.
• Experience working with traders and researchers in translating systematic trading models into production-ready systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the firm’s C++ trading infrastructure for DeFi, including automated trading, liquidity provision to AMMs, position management, and rebalancing.
• Optimize system performance, build analytics for system reliability, trade reconciliation, transaction cost analysis (TCA), and risk monitoring.
• Analyze on-chain transactions across DEXs, contract behavior, permissions, and execution requirements.
• Investigate and evaluate new protocols in collaboration with traders, researchers, and engineers.

Skills

C++ programming

DeFi software engineering

Solidity

AMMs concepts

On-chain execution

Production trading systems

Uniswap v4 exposure

Tools

Uniswap v4

RPC/Node infra

Job description

Global Trading Systems is seeking a Senior DeFi Trading Systems Engineer to build and scale high-performance trading infrastructure for automated market making, liquidity provision, and on-chain execution across DeFi protocols.

The role combines deep C++ engineering with hands-on institutional DeFi experience and a strong understanding of smart contracts, AMMs, and blockchain execution. Hybrid work in New York is offered with competitive salary.