Senior Market Infrastructure Software Engineer

About the Role

As the Senior Market Infrastructure Software Engineer, you’ll be a technical leader behind the software infrastructure powering efficient DeFi markets. You’ll not only develop and maintain critical systems, but also play a key role in shaping the future of financial markets through your code.

Our current infrastructure already monitors and operates our Morpho vaults and Kamino vaults (#1 DeFi curator with >$2B TVL). We are looking for top talent to build the most robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure for vault curation as we expand to more best in class partners.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the development of our market infrastructure codebase in Python and extend it to scale with our strategic objectives.
• Implement rigorous testing, monitoring, and security practices to ensure the reliability, performance, and resilience of the developed software tools and platforms against potential vulnerabilities and exploits.
• Help review existing products to analyze their safety and security.
• Build tooling, reporting and automation to improve the developer and operational experience.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python including architecture, type system, testing and lifecycle management.
• Capacity to read and understand smart contracts and integrate Python code with them.
• Market infrastructure experience in either TradFi, CeFi or DeFi
• Understanding of market making, the difference between major DeFi protocols (e.g. Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer).
• Entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, you are a self-starter, driven, and love building.
• Familiarity with economic modeling, financial mathematics, or quantitative analysis in the context of decentralized finance.
• Not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty.
• Detail oriented and very rigorous.
• Proactive and autonomous.
• Deep understanding of DeFi lending protocols, specifically Morpho, Aave, Compound, Kamino, or similar vault-based lending markets.
• Demonstrated ability to build secure, performant backend systems using technologies like Node.js, Rust, Go, or Python.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work cross-functionally and translate complex financial requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Capacity to write production smart contracts a plus.

What We Offer

• Be part of an ecosystem that encourages transparency and alignment with open-source methodologies and principles.
• Participate in shaping the next financial markets, your code will move hundreds of millions on day one.
• Contribute to high-impact projects that will drive the growth of decentralized finance.
• Competitive compensation including bonus and equity.
• $3,500 WFH stipend.
• Work within a remote and highly collaborative team consisting of diverse experts.
• Remote first culture with bases in New York City, Miami, and Central Europe with opportunities to travel to team events and conferences.