Software Engineer, Wintermute
Python
£80-150k
More information about location
Algorithmic trading firm in digital assets
Job no longer available
Algorithmic trading firm in digital assets
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£80-150k
More information about location
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
- The role is ideal for a candidate with strong Python skills who is interested to work on building new high-performance systems and developing their knowledge of system architectur
- Crypto experience is not required, but we are looking for someone with a keen interest in financial markets
- The ideal candidate has prior experience working directly with financial benchmarks, such as equity and commodity indices, and benchmark prices
- 3+ experience of Python and having experience with C++ as a secondary language would be an advantage
- Prior experience working with financial index data would be a very big plus
- Proficient in acquiring, importing, and processing data from various third-party vendors in real-time
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services for data retrieval and integration
- Experience with big data technologies like Apache Kafka or Flink for handling large-scale data processing is a plus
- Strong skills in database design, management, and optimization, with experience in SQL databases
- Familiarity with Linux, on desktops and servers
- Understanding of git or any other source versioning systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Developer to build out a platform with tools to support functions such as asset price ingestion, benchmark calculation, and historical and live price publication
- You will be part of a team that is creating a completely new product
- As such you will have a lot of autonomy and room to make your own decisions
- You will work closely with the management team, and end-users of benchmark asset price data
- The solution will be built in Python and should be “industry-grade”, with a high level of robustness
- It will involve developing solutions to integrate into existing APIs from data vendors (e.g. exchanges, data providers) as well as building new functions that will calculate, verify and publish benchmark pricing
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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 HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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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