Location: Remote - APAC, Australia
About us
At Auros, we’re dedicated to advancing the cryptocurrency ecosystem through unparalleled liquidity and market-making services. We’re one of the largest participants in the market, trading across 10+ global locations, facilitating 3-4% of global daily volumes, and have connectivity to over 50 venues.
What sets us apart, though, is our culture. We believe in hiring smart people and empowering them to do their best work. From day one you’ll have the autonomy and support to really excel. Our relentless focus on delivery drives us to continuously push boundaries and achieve exceptional results, all while offering abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth in the dynamic realm of digital assets.
The Opportunity
This is an opportunity to develop trading systems for crypto currencies in the rapidly evolving class of digital assets. You will work with our traders and other experienced developers in a startup-style role building and maintaining Defi strategies, connectivity and infrastructure.
This position will be a very flexible role, working in combination with multiple teams as required on tasks such as: Defi strategy implementation, defi order management; blockchain and mempool inspection; wallet management; security; and blockchain node management.
- Transform trading opportunities into profits. That is, improve and invent trading and market making strategies while minding risk and any market-making obligations. You will oversee the entire process, including problem identification, analysing data, writing software, and providing ongoing support.
- Improve and develop systems for automated monitoring of 24/7/365 trading.
- Develop and support Defi order and transaction management tools in Python and Typescript
- Share ownership of our Defi infrastructure, including blockchain nodes and validators, as well as secure environments for running applications
- Contribute to design and development of our security and wallet management infrastructure
- Analyse and understand new Defi projects and help establish requirements and timelines for integrating against them
- Identify opportunities for system improvements
- Be responsible for troubleshooting system issues as and when they occur
- Engage with the team during system design discussions, code reviews, trading idea brainstorms and daily office banter.
Who you are
Our ideal candidate will have:
- A software engineer with 5+ years experience working in Python and Typescript
- 3+ years experience developing blockchain related applications, either via coding smart contracts or coding applications that interact with smart contracts
- Experience in crypto strategy development, market making/liquidity is highly desirable
- A deep knowledge of a large number of popular blockchain protocols (eg. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, etc)
- Good programming skills, with a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
- You can find the balance between delivering clean, testable, reliable code and rapidly deploying new system features to take advantage of market opportunities
- You are reliable, take pride in delivering robust software and are willing to be on call to support the systems you develop
- You’re able to precisely articulate software concepts and designs
- You have a Bachelor's degree (or above) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar, with excellent results
Additional desirable skills that you may have:
- Experience developing in C++
What We Offer in Return
- Opportunity to work at the forefront of the digital asset industry
- Remote and flexible work
- Autonomy and a flat structure means you can contribute your ideas from day one and help shape the foundation that will power our future business.
At Auros, we value nimbleness, drive for success, owner mentality, and collaboration. Join us in shaping the future of financial services across Asia and beyond!
