Senior Software Engineer, Liquidity

0x•San Francisco, CA

49d•Remote

About The Position

Join our Liquidity Engineering team, whose mission is to maximize our pricing coverage and competitiveness to maintain our position as the best DEX aggregation engine on the planet on 20+ chains across both EVM and SVM. We work at the frontier of liquidity sourcing, AMM modeling, and route optimization, ensuring our infrastructure is robust, fast, and always ahead of the competition. You’ll help shape the future of how tokenized value flows in DeFi: without interruptions, with high accuracy, and across the most relevant chains and markets.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in DeFi
In-depth knowledge of design and mechanics of leading AMMs (constant product, concentrated liquidity, stable-swap, orderbook, etc.)
Comfortable coding in Rust
Basic working knowledge of Solidity
Proven ability to design systems with input from multiple stakeholders, balancing technical, product, and operational trade-offs
Experience modifying existing production codebases and shipping those changes without impact to system uptime
Experience implementing systems with high performance/latency demands
Self-driven and effective in a fully remote environment. A successful candidate will be able to communicate clearly and work independently while staying closely aligned with the team.
Knowledge and passion for decentralized finance and the 0x mission
Exhibit our core values: do the right thing, consistently ship, and focus on long-term impact
Willingness to travel globally for two annual in-person team meetups - all travel expenses covered

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating onchain with major DEX protocols and aggregators (e.g., Uniswap, Curve, Balancer)
Familiarity with both EVM and SVM ecosystems, including chain-specific nuances: transaction lifecycle, performance optimizations and MEV dynamics
Experience building tools or frameworks for liquidity analysis and price competitiveness benchmarking
Bonus points if you're able to explain a new, complex, or unusual AMM design to us in plain English

Responsibilities

Find and integrate AMMs into our existing routers for both SVM and EVM environments to maximize price competitiveness, token coverage and execution quality of our trading APIs
Build tools to automatically analyze DEX liquidity across 20+ chains. Identify and act on price improvement opportunities using data-driven insights and protocol knowledge
Balance speed and pricing to achieve the right outcomes for the business; maximize win rates within meta-aggregators, wallets, and the broader competitive landscape
Continuously monitor, troubleshoot, and improve our liquidity integrations to maintain top-tier performance
Stay ahead of trends in DEX design, evaluating and onboarding high-value opportunities
Accurately predict and prioritize which new DEXes will have the greatest impact on price competitiveness

Benefits

Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision/life/disability) for U.S.-based employees — 100% of base plan covered for you and dependents
401k and FSA for U.S.-based employees
Monthly mobile phone bill, wellness, and pre-tax transportation expense
Covered mental health benefits (included professional therapy sessions)
A supportive remote environment
Lunch reimbursement for all employees across the globe!
Stipend for your ideal remote / WFH set-up: headphones, and any other work gear you may need
12-week paid parental leave
Great office conveniently located in the SF Financial District for those in the region!
Flexible vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)