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Backend Engineer (NYC)

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Location: New York, United States (Hybrid)

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $180K - $320K

Our client is the largest decentralized perpetual exchange on Arbitrum, having processed over $20 billion in cumulative trading volume since its launch in late 2024. The platform enables leveraged trading of real-world assets, including commodities, forex, indices, and stocks—alongside cryptocurrency, bringing global markets on-chain with full self-custody.

A mid- to senior-level Backend Engineer is required to join an ambitious team focused on scaling a state-of-the-art infrastructure layer. This infrastructure is designed to allow engineering teams to self-serve 90% of their needs, enabling this role to focus entirely on high-level, high-impact projects. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with quants, infrastructure specialists, and data engineers to build a centralized pricing plane and an extremely dynamic pricing system that determines market competitiveness in real time.

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Staff Frontend Engineer

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Location: New York, United States (Office)

On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: $250K - $300K

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is seeking a highly skilled and autonomous Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the technical evolution of its primary application surfaces. Our client provides an institutional-grade yet highly accessible trading application that abstracts away the complexities of on-chain operations—such as external wallets and bridging—enabling seamless, instantaneous asset access alongside advanced social trading features. Within its first year of operation, the platform has successfully onboarded over 500,000 users and executed more than $3.5 billion in total trading volume.

The successful candidate will join an elite, lean engineering organization comprised of crypto-native talent drawn from top-tier decentralized finance (DeFi) and digital asset protocols. This individual will take comprehensive ownership of both the mobile application architecture (developed with Expo) and the web application infrastructure (built utilizing React Router and Vite). As our client scales its core product offering to support novel order types, decentralized perpetuals, prediction markets, and sophisticated social layers, this role provides significant cross-stack flexibility and foundational architectural ownership.

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Talent Operator

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Location: New York, United States • Miami, United States • California, United States (Hybrid) - On site in NYC - main preference, will consider candidates from Miami and California. IF IN CALIFORNIA, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT CANDIDATES WILL RE-LOCATE TO NYC WITHIN 6 MONTH.

Hybrid/On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: $120K - $200K

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is a high-growth fintech organization building the onchain broker layer for global markets. Backed by over $27M in funding from premier venture capital firms like General Catalyst and Jump Crypto, the company has processed $50B+ in trading volume and generated significant revenue within the last year. Operating as a lean, high-velocity team, our client is currently scaling its operations to meet the demands of high-volume macro traders.

The organization is seeking a Talent Operator to serve as the first dedicated internal talent hire. This is not a traditional recruiting role; it is a strategic "internal engine" position designed for an individual who views talent acquisition as a complex operational puzzle. Working directly with the founding team, the Talent Operator will build the infrastructure necessary to scale the company toward 200 employees, with a clear trajectory for professional advancement.

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Senior Growth Marketing Lead

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Location: Remote - Fully remote across UK, Europe or onsite in NYC.

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $150K - $250K

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is an innovative fintech organization establishing an onchain broker layer for global markets. By enabling the trading of equities, commodities, indices, and FX via perpetuals, the company bridges the gap between traditional finance and decentralized technology. Having secured over $27M in funding from premier venture capital firms and processed upwards of $50B in trading volume, the platform has demonstrated significant traction among high-volume macro traders.

The organization is seeking a Senior Growth Marketing Lead to join a lean, high-velocity Go-To-Market team. This is a "zero-to-one" opportunity for a high-agency operator to own user acquisition end-to-end. The successful candidate will strategize the next phase of user growth, identifying where the next 10,000 traders will come from and executing the experiments to convert them. Initially serving as a hands-on operator, this lead will collaborate with the Head of Marketing and the creative, social, and BD teams to validate channels before eventually scaling a dedicated growth department.

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Head of Growth - Hyperliquid Agents

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Location: Remote Americas preferred location

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $150k-$200k base plus equity/token

We are hiring on behalf of our our client who is developing a high-performance agent runtime specifically engineered for the Hyperliquid ecosystem. This infrastructure includes hardened execution environments, a proprietary data layer, and an open-source strategy marketplace designed for autonomous AI trading agents. Having already established significant market traction with over 1,100 monthly active trading agents and exceeding $100M in 30-day volume, the organization is now scaling its operations to support tens of thousands of agents.

The Head of Growth will be responsible for the end-to-end adoption of these AI agents. This is a 100% performance-driven leadership role where success is measured by concrete metrics: agent deployments, trading volume, and unit economics. The individual in this position will be fully accountable for Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), Lifetime Value (LTV), and payback periods, moving beyond traditional brand marketing to focus on data-backed growth.

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Staff Mobile Engineer

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Staff Mobile Engineer

Remote | Full-Time | Engineering

Compensation: $180K - $250K

We are hiring on behalf of our client, the largest ecosystem builder on a leading decentralized perpetual exchange, currently building the next generation of DeFi trading. Their mission is to democratize access to global financial markets—including crypto, equities, and commodities—by leveraging decentralized technology. To date, their platform has processed $65B+ in cumulative trading volume, generated eight figures in revenue, and supports over 400,000 registered traders.

They are a small, elite team of individual contributors who value autonomy, ownership, and rapid execution. They are looking for a Staff Mobile Engineer who views React Native as a craft. You will sit at the intersection of engineering, design, and product, turning raw speed into a premium mobile experience that feels intentional and indistinguishable from a native app.

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Reinforcement Learning Engineer

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Reinforcement Learning (RL) Engineer

Location: New York (Office)

On-site | Full-time

Compensation: Competitive

Our client is an elite development firm and a high-growth software company responsible for building the infrastructure behind the world’s largest crypto social networks and digital asset launchpads. Operating at the frontier of decentralized finance, the organization is composed of a mission-driven group of builders who prioritize speed, technical excellence, and talent density.

The organization is seeking a Reinforcement Learning (RL) Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of an RL-driven trading agent. This individual will manage real capital to increase trading volume and user participation within a high-velocity memecoin ecosystem. This is a high-stakes role designed for a "single-owner" expert who can bridge the gap between sophisticated modeling and live financial production. The successful candidate will transition existing heuristic-based systems toward learning-based approaches while enforcing rigorous risk parameters in a 24/7 global market.

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Staff Smart Contract Engineer

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Lead Protocol Engineer - HyperEVM DeFi Trading Infrastructure

Location: Remote - Preference for EST time zone or candidates that can overlap with EST

Compensation: $200K - $300K

We are building the next generation of DeFi trading, leveraging decentralized technologies to democratize access to global financial markets. As the largest builder product on our core platform, we have processed north of $50 billion in cumulative trading volume and achieved eight figures in revenue in the past year. We are a small, highly technical team focused on results, and are seeking a Lead Protocol Engineer to architect and scale our smart contract infrastructure on HyperEVM.

You will be the technical owner and lead protocol developer, responsible for the design, implementation, and deployment of smart contracts on the HyperEVM. This role is ideal for a strong individual contributor who thrives in a low-process, high-trust, and ambiguous 0-to-1 environment. You will be building DeFi primitives and trading infrastructure designed to scale to millions of traders and billions in daily volume.

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Senior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer - Decentralized Perpetual Exchange

Location: Remote - US or EU if willing to overlap 6+ hours with ET

Compensation: $180K - $300K

We are the largest decentralized perpetual exchange on a leading Ethereum Layer 2 solution, processing over $20 billion in cumulative trading volume. Our mission is to bring global markets on-chain, enabling leveraged trading of real-world assets (commodities, forex, indices, stocks) alongside crypto, all with full self-custody. Backed by top-tier investors, we are a small team scaling critical infrastructure handling billions in volume and are seeking an exceptional Senior Backend Engineer who deeply understands crypto infrastructure.

You will build and scale the high-reliability systems that power our exchange, directly impacting billions in trading volume. This role requires navigating the entire stack, from reading blockchain state and decoding oracle message signatures to building high-performance APIs and data pipelines. You will be comfortable working close to the protocol layer while owning critical infrastructure that processes thousands of trades daily.

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Senior/Lead Smart Contract Engineer

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Senior/Lead Smart Contract Engineer - Decentralized Perpetuals Exchange

Location: Remote - US or EU if willing to overlap 6+ hours with ET

Compensation: $250K - $500K

We are building the backbone of global decentralized finance (DeFi), operating the largest perpetual exchange on Arbitrum and processing over $20 billion in cumulative trading volume. Our platform enables leveraged trading of real-world assets (RWAs)—commodities, forex, indices, and stocks—alongside crypto, bringing global markets on-chain with full self-custody. Backed by General Catalyst and Susquehanna International Group, we are a small team providing institutional-grade reliability for a protocol handling billions in volume.

We are seeking an exceptional Senior or Lead Smart Contract Engineer to help scale our protocol as we expand to hundreds of markets and billions in daily volume. You will work directly with our founding team (backgrounds from Harvard, Bridgewater, and BlackRock) to architect and implement critical protocol upgrades and new market mechanisms for the next generation of on-chain derivatives.

This is not a junior role. We need an expert who has built and maintained perpetual Decentralized Exchange (DEX) smart contracts in production at scale.

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