Senior Software Engineer - DeFi
About The Position
DRW is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Unified Platform (UP) team to support their expansion into decentralized finance (DeFi). The UP team consolidates data and technologies into a comprehensive solution to accelerate time to market, optimize decision-making and research, and simplify the implementation of new ideas. The UP-Trade Operations team specifically builds software to manage DRW's growing DeFi footprint, requiring engineers to understand DeFi protocols financially and technically to build reliable, institutional-scale systems. This role involves ingesting and normalizing data across multiple chains and custody platforms, integrating with DeFi protocols, building services to bridge on-chain and off-chain reporting, developing APIs and UIs for real-time visibility into DeFi positions and risk, and modeling DeFi instruments alongside traditional finance equivalents.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- Hands-on experience navigating the DeFi landscape
- Hands-on experience with EVM internals, smart contract ABIs, and libraries like ethers.js or web3.js
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols: AMMs (Uniswap), lending (Aave, Compound), options/structured products, or staking
- Understanding of multi-chain architectures -- L1s, L2 rollups, bridging, and cross-chain data challenges
- Experience with Oracle systems (Chainlink) or on-chain pricing
- Ability to reason about DeFi protocols from a financial perspective, e.g. how different AMM designs affect pricing, how lending rates compare across protocols, or what distinguishes different stablecoin mechanisms
- Multiple years of server-side development
- Willingness to learn Clojure, one of the team's primary languages
- Confident JVM knowledge
- Working knowledge of Node.js/TypeScript
- A solid understanding of micro-service architectures
- Proficiency in domain-driven design and domain modeling
- A good understanding of functional paradigms and type theory
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to Solana or other non-EVM chains is a plus
Responsibilities
- Building systems with a constant focus on testing, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Designing, modeling, and programming in a variety of languages and technologies
- Working on legacy code as well as greenfield development
- Taking initiative and driving projects to completion
- Learning and promoting new technologies with a focus on best practices
- Providing on-call support as needed
- Sometimes working alongside other developers on the same task
Benefits
- group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
- 401k (with discretionary employer match)
- short and long-term disability
- life and AD&D insurance
- health savings accounts
- flexible spending accounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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