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• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote - Work from anywhere
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $25 – $55/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 20h/week - Short term

ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Requirements

Role

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to join an early stage company operating in programmatic trading and AI-powered investment strategies. Join a fast moving and fast growing company that acknowledges bold new ideas and rewards people who make those ideas a successful reality.

Qualifications

A successful candidate should have some (not all) of these specializations:

• Deep understanding of blockchain fundamentals, protocol design and decentralized finance

• 1+ years of experience working with Rust

• At least one project experience working with smart contracts, especially an EVM chain

• Strong interest and willingness to learn about, or prior knowledge of algorithmic trading, arbitrage, yield farming, market making, high frequency trading

• 2+ years of experience working with REST APIs, websockets, JSON, and/or trading data integration

• Strong applied programming skills with a demonstrated ability to write secure and high quality code

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills

• Comfortable working with GCP, Git, Docker

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and successfully drive projects to production

• Experience with data visualization tools

• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.

• Good communication skills, data-oriented, and startup-minded personality.

What you’ll be working on

Overview

Fast growing crypto hedge fund startup seeking DeFi Software Engineer with Rust experience and advanced analytical skills (typically evidenced by a degree in math, physics, computer science, engineering, etc.), and a deep understanding of decentralized finance and blockchain. Our client highly value an entrepreneurial mindset and a determination that any problem can be solved no matter how complex/challenging the issue.

You will work closely with the founding team on the most important and challenging parts of the business and you will own your own areas related to their DeFi code base from day one. There will be plenty of opportunity to proactively shape your role, while driving real change and lasting impact for the company.

Company

Our client is a revolutionary asset management company. With technology in their DNA, they use innovative software models and proprietary strategies to create a market edge for their client investors.

Responsibilities

• Improve and maintain an existing app stack which entails working on a full arbitrage engine (written in Rust) and contract (written in Solidity) that can be used to trade on pools deployed on EVM chains.

• Integrating with DeFi protocols, blockchains and exchanges using latest gen APIs and smart contract architecture

• Analyze on-chain data and activity and develop internal analytical tooling to produce new insights and actionable data analysis on blockchain activity

• Design and implement new smart contract integrations to take on-chain actions within their larger trading strategy and infrastructure

• Design and develop off-chain internal applications that operate within their existing trading structure via price oracles and exchange APIs

• Any other relevant responsibility that may arise from time to time.

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Braintrust Job ID: 6382

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.