Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. We build institutional-grade vaults for decentralized finance, delivering risk-adjusted onchain yields for capital at scale. Designed by the most vigilant, quantitative minds in crypto and informed by years of research.
As of November 2025, Gauntlet manages over $2B in vault TVL, and optimizes risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL. We continually publish cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institutions â including academic institutions â in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. Weâre a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.
As a company, we build institutional-grade vaults that deliver risk-adjusted DeFi yields at scale, powered by automated risk models and off-chain intelligence. Gauntlet curates strategies across Morpho, Drift, Symbiotic, Aera and more, with >$2B in vault TVL and a growing suite of Prime, Core and Frontier vaults.
Our mission is to drive adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future. We operate with a traderâs discipline and a risk managerâs skepticism: size carefully, stress routinely, unwind decisively. The label equals the package equals the contents. No surprises, just predictable, reliable vaults.
Join our derivatives trading team and work on the key infrastructure that powers our product offering as well as trading systems. Work with a team with decades of experience in tech and finance to build the backbone of our high-performance derivatives trading strategies. You'll work close to trading, own critical infrastructure end-to-end, and ship systems that manage real capital in live crypto markets.
\n- Design, implement, and operate scalable distributed systems in production.
- Build low-latency and streaming systems for real-time and near real-time workloads.
- Develop data pipelines and ETL workflows for ingesting, transforming, and serving data.
- Build and maintain application services and APIs used by internal and external systems.
- Implement Web3 protocol integrations, including smart contract interactions and on-chain data ingestion via RPCs, logs, and indexers.
- Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, observability, and operational correctness.
- Participate in incident response, debugging production issues and driving root-cause fixes.
- Contribute to system design and code reviews, maintaining high engineering standards.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and system understanding, while exercising strong engineering judgment.
- Write and maintain technical documentation for systems and workflows.
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building low-latency or high-throughput systems.
- Experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with Web3 systems, including interacting with smart contracts and consuming on-chain data.
- Experience with streaming or messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, Pub/Sub).
- Experience with data storage systems (e.g. Postgres, ClickHouse).
- Experience deploying and operating software in cloud environments (e.g. GCP).
- Familiarity with containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Understanding of SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Strong understanding of security fundamentals (authentication, authorization, secrets management).
- Previous experience at financial or trading firms.
- Smart contract development experience (e.g. Solidity).
- Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g. Dagster).
- Experience operating systems with strict reliability or performance requirements.
- Exposure to infrastructure as code or CI/CD systems.
- Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
- Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
- Laptop provided
- $1,000 WFH stipend upon joining
- $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation policy
- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.
The national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.
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We are a leading trading platform that is expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talent team.
We are currently growing our Backend Team and looking for great Engineers with an interest in trading to join us! Our Engineering team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the robustness, speed, and security of our product. Dedicated to enhancing performance, providing a best-in-class user experience, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding data, the team's efforts directly impact our ability to offer clients a seamless and secure trading journey.
We believe great engineering talent not only delivers excellent code, but also lives our values. We are looking for someone who is eager to go fast, willing to innovate and grow, who knows how to listen, respect and support, strives to exceed client expectations, and takes full ownership to achieve real results.
\n- Design and build scalable, low-latency, and high-performance backend services
- Develop distributed and asynchronous systems ensuring reliability and fault tolerance
- Optimise performance across JVM, databases, caching, and networking layers
- Apply security best practices in handling client PII and financial transactions
- Use event-driven architectures and modern messaging solutions (e.g. Kafka)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align architecture with business needs
- Maintain high code quality through testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate development, testing, and delivery
- Design and build backend systems for custody, wallet services, staking, and trading.
- Implement secure key-management and transaction-signing workflows (multisig, MPC, HSM).
- Integrate with blockchain nodes, custody providers, CEX/DEX APIs, and staking protocols.
- Support the integration of third-party staking service providers and manage the associated workflows, including delegation, monitoring, and reward distribution.
- Proven experience in FinTech, Banking, or related financial domains
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and the clientâserver model
- Ability to design and maintain scalable, low-latency, high-performance systems
- Solid knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming
- Awareness of security best practices in handling PII and financial transactions
- Basic understanding of network protocols and troubleshooting
- Experience working in a product-led fast-paced environment as a team player
- Strong understanding of blockchain fundamentals: consensus, mempool, finality, gas mechanics, security considerations, and transaction lifecycles.
- Hands-on experience with major chains (e.g., Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Cosmos, Polygon).
- Deep experience with wallet systems, key management, multisig/threshold signatures, hot/cold wallet architecture, and secure signing pipelines.
- Experience with custody platforms (Fireblocks, BitGo, Ledger Enterprise, Copper) or building custody-grade internal wallet infrastructure.
- Practical experience with staking/validator operations, including rewards, uptime, monitoring, and slashing mitigation.
- Java and Spring: Advanced knowledge of Java Core technologies and the Spring framework
- Data Mastery: Proficiency with SQL databases, ensuring optimal performance, structure, and replication
- Concurrency & Async programming: advanced understanding and hands-on experience in asynchronous programming methods.
- Events streaming: Understanding of the event driven architecture (Kafka or similar solutions).
- Operational Proficiency: Understanding and hands-on experience with Ops activities, Kubernetes, pipelines, Fit Flow and modern CI/CD patterns and strategies
- AI tools: ability to effectively use AI technologies in engineering work e.g. applying AI for coding assistance, debugging, testing, documentation, and optimisation of workflows
- Communication: Effective communication skills, especially with teams responsible for security, operations and product
- Analytical thinking: Ability to tackle and investigate complicated problems and convert it to the task
- Adaptability to Rapid Changes: Demonstrated capability to adjust to quick technological shifts and evolving business requirements
- Ownership and Accountability: Readiness to take ownership of tasks, issues as well as demonstrate accountability of the results and outcome
- Performance: Knowledge of JVM performance optimization practices
- No-SQL: Experience working with no-SQL databases is a big plus
- In-memory storage: Strong knowledge of in-memory cache solutions
- Familiarity with double-entry accounting
- Understanding of DeFi protocols, liquidity mechanisms, yield strategies, or governance systems.
- Exposure to MEV concepts, transaction simulation, or on-chain execution optimization.
- Competitive salary and annual performance-based bonus
- Generous annual leave policy
- Health insurance and pension fund, with additional benefits depending on location
- Hybrid working model (3 days from office) or fully remote across the country of employment
- Workation policy (30 days remote from anywhere in the world)
- Two additional paid days per year dedicated to volunteering
Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity. Work alongside one of the most brilliant teams in the industry.
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