Lead Software Engineer

This opportunity is Remote within Europe (HQ in London) Our client is a decentralized trading platform that aims to deliver a step-change user experience to trading on DeFi. They believe that DeFi is the future of finance facilitating true innovation, economic freedom and ability to create the best financial products. Our client is on a mission to make superior trading products with efficient execution available to anyone. This means that they will only offer products and features that make sense. They are driven by the best practices of user experience with user-centric design at the heart of everything they do, making products fun and easy to use. And they will work relentlessly and leverage our deepest expertise to bring the most efficient execution with transparent fees. They were born and incubated at Wintermute , one of the largest trading companies in crypto and a leading liquidity powerhouse in DeFi. About the opportunity You will be in charge of delivering high-performance, scalable and beautiful web3 applications. You will lead the engineering team, design back-end and front-end architecture, write and release top quality code and refine DevOps practices. You will push the boundaries by delivering technical innovation in blockchain space. You will use your best entrepreneurial instincts to make technology choices that drive business growth. Hard Skills Requirements 4+ years of demonstrable engineering experience in either a professional and personal capacity. Previous experience managing small and dynamic teams. Full stack awareness with focus on componentisation, managing applications/microservices and API designs. Architecting systems that manage financial data, such as a trade order lifecycle, from request to execution. Strong working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and Python3.8+ and OOP principles. Familiarity with common network protocols such as HTTP, WS and FIX. General clean code habits, along with basic DevOps understanding of items such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, standard security practices and Linux based operating systems Blockchain Fundamentals such as consensus mechanisms, nodes, web3. Experience with EVM smart contract development (preferably Solidity/Foundry framework) and basic knowledge on implementation patterns and gas optimization Understanding and experience on analyzing on-chain transactional activity, such as pool swaps and peer to peer settlement protocols. The Offer A unique opportunity to work on a startup from zero to one with all the impact of early employees, while having a reliable backing (financial, technological and business expertise) from one of the industry's top players An amazing culture, defined as ambitious, knowledgeable and fun. Work flexibility: while we have location preferences for our hubs (New York, London, Singapore, Sydney), we are open to remote candidates globally but most of the team is based in London. Process: a first interview with on of the DeFi engineers joined by HR (expectations and technical exposure) Case Study where candidates can provide evidence of work A last interview with the head of DeFi and another developer