Requirements
- Deep trading infrastructure and risk management experience. You have built matching engines, margin systems, liquidation engines, or real-time risk platforms. You understand order matching semantics, cross-collateralization models, and how liquidation cascades propagate under stress. This experience can come from tier-1 investment banks, hedge funds, prop shops, centralized crypto exchanges, or DeFi derivatives protocols.
- Derivatives market structure fluency. Perpetuals, options, funding rates, mark price computation, portfolio margin. You don't just understand the theory. You've built systems that handle these instruments at production scale.
- Hands-on blockchain/DeFi depth or proven ability to ramp fast. EVM smart contracts (Solidity), protocol design, bridge security, token standards. If you're crossing over from TradFi, you need to demonstrate genuine blockchain engagement and ability to reach Solidity PR-review fluency within 90 days.
- A professional network in risk engineering. You've worked alongside risk engineers, risk quants, and model risk managers throughout your career. You can name specific people you'd recruit as Head of Risk Engineering. If you need to cold-search for this talent, you don't have the network.
- 12+ years engineering, 5+ in senior technical leadership. VP Engineering, CTO, Head of Engineering, Chief Architect, or equivalent. You've managed teams spanning trading systems, risk platforms, and backend infrastructure.
- Systems-level technical depth. You can review PRs, debug smart contracts, make real-time architecture calls, and argue about sequencer design at the implementation level. This is not an "above the code" role.
Nice to Have
- TradFi-to-crypto crossover trajectory. The strongest candidates have spent 10-15+ years building equity/FX/rates trading systems and risk platforms at institutions like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citadel, Jane Street, Two Sigma, or BFAM Partners, and have since applied that infrastructure expertise in crypto. This background provides both the technical depth and the risk engineering network we need.
- Mobile-first consumer product experience. We are building for 112M retail traders who are not crypto natives. UX instinct matters. If your strength is trading infrastructure, you should be willing to hire strong mobile product engineering leaders and defer to them on UX decisions.
- Global market experience. Our priority markets are LatAm, SEA, and MENA. Experience shipping products outside the US is highly valued.
