Frontend Engineer, Wintermute
+A performance-based compensation
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Algorithmic trading firm in digital assets
Open for applications
Algorithmic trading firm in digital assets
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+A performance-based compensation
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent, fair and efficient markets and products.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Frontend Engineer who is passionate about building products/applications that people find useful and enjoy using
- We are open to experience from both personal and work-related projects. Interest in algorithmic trading is a plus
- 5+ years of frontend development experience
- Experience in client facing financial or other professional services products is preferred but not mandatory (please mention products you built the front-ends for and their intended target users)
- In-depth knowledge of frontend tech stack: node.js, npm, javascript, typescript and popular frameworks such as React (please feel free to share any available examples of frontends that you built)
- Good understanding of infrastructure required for frontend/servers: CDN, Cloudflare or similar, web servers
- Experience in developing secure frontend code (strong understanding of common security vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, other OWASP risks and best practices for testing & mitigating them)
- Good understanding of frontend-backend integration, e.g. familiarity with AJAX or other methods for making asynchronous backend requests
- Ability to create responsive layouts
What the job involves
- At Wintermute you will have an opportunity to grow and make a direct impact on trading by developing and improving all the parts of the trading applications for internal and external users, while also getting advice and guidance from very experienced developers and traders
- You will get a lot of independence and responsibility right away, and you'll learn at an unprecedented speed
- This role will involve developing front end applications for Wintermute's new trading products and client facing portals, as well as internal trading applications and oversight/project management of corporate website frontend development
- A great advantage of this position is to be part of creating and driving the vision for a platform/portal from scratch as well as overseeing the frontend experience across a range of customer lifecycle stages
- You will work very closely across multiple teams at Wintermute, including product, marketing, trading and engineering. You’ll have an opportunity to improve your knowledge of building high-performance scalable applications, understand broader system architecture and to understand algorithmic crypto currency trading
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Recent developments in mobile applications and financial tech have resulted in increased demand for digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, and this growing demand is putting pressure on traditional market makers. Ultimately, the increased scale and complexity of the new digital asset landscape has exposed inefficiencies in existing liquidity providers.
Wintermute uses an algorithmic approach to provide market-making services that facilitate digital asset liquidity with long-term scaling and efficiency in mind. The company currently provides its market-making services to over 50 centralized and decentralized trading platforms, including Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken.
The company has taken a unique approach towards market making by operating with the assumption that digital asset markets are only going to get bigger and more complex. By streamlining the market making process with algorithmic automation and thus optimizing efficiency, Wintermute presents itself as a future-proof solution for the rapidly scaling digital asset industry.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Nice people
"Very nice, motivated colleagues. Culture is strong, activities such as events and even an annual outing allows you to connect and make friends...."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2021
$20m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$2.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $24.8m
Company benefits
- A unique opportunity to work on very interesting projects, get the level of responsibility and ownership that would be unlikely at any other project or trading firm
- A unique opportunity to join one of the strongest and most successful DeFi teams globally
- With Wintermute you don’t make a bet on a single product, platform, chain or technology; we’ll win if DeFi wins as a whole
- Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet collaborative and entrepreneurial
- Option to work from London or Singapore offices, as well as remotely; we generally prefer at least 60% working from the office but are open to remote candidates
- Aligned incentive structure: high upside from performance-based variable pay with very transparent bonus system
- We offer standard perks too, like pension, private health insurance and free food, but that’s probably not the right reason to join us
Company values
- Ambitious: We set the most ambitious goals. We set the highest standards for ourselves and work hard. We play to win
- Collaborative: We go above and beyond to help our partners and counterparties grow. We work as a team, not as siloed groups and individuals. We are united by common goals and values
- Entrepreneurial: We love building new innovative things. We move very fast and focus on the results. We empower everyone from day 1 to act like an owner
- Meritocratic: We are non-hierarchical, informal, and direct. We focus on results above seniority and experience. We generously reward results
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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Leadership
Evgeny Gaevoy
(CEO)Holds an Executive MBA from London Business School. Joined Optiver as an Index Derivatives Trader, and was eventually made Head of ETF Business Expansion.
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