About the company
At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance! By joining us at this early stage, you’ll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets. Paradigm is a zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi. We provide unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on execution preferences, costs, and immediacy. We’ve built the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto, with over 1000 institutional clients trading over $10 B per month. We are a diverse, global team led by our organizational principles and united by our mission to bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere, without compromises. We also strive to ship faster than anyone else in the industry! We are backed by the best traders and investors in the space, including Jump Capital, Genesis Trading, Dragonfly Capital, QCP Capital, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Fidelity Digital Assets CMT Digital, Goldentree Asset Management, Amber Group, OK Group, Bybit Fintech, and CoinShares.
Job Summary
What You’ll Do
📍Protocol Development: Design and implement a decentralized protocol for crypto derivatives trading, including developing, testing, and deploying backend systems and smart contracts. 📍API and SDK Development: Design and develop APIs and SDKs to support robust trade execution services. 📍System Monitoring: Own monitoring, alarming, analytics, and reporting for all services you build, ensuring they meet high performance and responsiveness standards. 📍Effective Communication: Collaborate and communicate requirements effectively within and across teams to ensure alignment on project goals.
What You Bring
📍Proven Experience: 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally from ideation to launch within a strong engineering team. 📍Technical Expertise: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with modern programming languages like Javascript, Python, Golang, Java, C++. Proficiency in basic cryptography and experience with Solidity for creating upgradeable smart contracts. 📍Blockchain Proficiency: Hands-on experience building on blockchain platforms, comfortable with cloud-native AWS infrastructure and/or Kubernetes. 📍Cryptocurrency Knowledge: Deep understanding of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and underlying technologies like blockchain, PoW, PoS, and L1/L2 technologies. 📍Innovative Mindset: Interest in ZK-Rollups and cutting-edge blockchain technologies.
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