Backend Engineer - Market Making

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 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 arenaflex 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 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 Apply tot his job

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