Senior Golang Engineer

About GFX Labs & Oku

Oku is the future of trading onchain. Seeded by the Uniswap Foundation with a $1.6m grant, GFX Labs has built Oku to be the premier trading DEX trading app. Oku’s core goal is to build a Uniswap v3 interface with the features and quality user experience of a traditional exchange but with the mandate to remain onchain. Oku has features such as order books, price charts, volume charts, live trading history, limit orders, a best-in-class swap interface, user order history, Uniswap v3 analytics, multichain support, and many more features.

Oku has the underlying liquidity of Uniswap v3, a high-quality frontend akin to Binance without having to burden of onboarding users, custodying assets, and the other responsibilities of a traditional exchange. It also has the benefits of supporting any market on the underlying protocol and the ability to tap into the composability of other DeFi protocols. While most people think of crypto exchanges as Binance and Coinbase, an untapped domain exist for a DeFi option to rival the industry giants by leveraging DeFi’s complete offering. We plan to grow Oku into one of the best crypto exchanges.

Why work at GFX?

• Any firm can pay a high salary and offer good incentives (as will we), but most can’t offer interesting, challenging, and rewarding work.
• We have something to prove. Our team is young and hungry. We like to move fast and make things. We know when to double down and when to cut our losses. We are going to make mistakes, and we are going to build a better product because of them. We don’t micromanage or have a huge team of product managers. We want self starters who take charge and solve problems.
• We don’t care if you went to school, what grades you got, or your age. Show us what you have built, what problems you have solved, and what skills you have.

About the role:

As a Senior Golang Engineer at GFX Labs, you’ll be working on the backend that powers Oku. You will not only be solving technically demanding problems, but will also provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members, influencing the overall technical direction of the projects.

You might be great for this role if you have:

• 4+ years of development experience in Golang.
• Deep experience with various cloud tools like Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Fly.io.
• Strong opinions about software design and implementation.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• Attention to detail with excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Thrive in an environment where you have significant independence.
• You are proactive and driven by curiosity.
• You have a strong work ethic with disciplined execution skills.

What you’ll do at GFX

• Develop top-tier user experiences with DeFi protocols across an array of blockchains
• Partner with design on UX strategy
• Create smooth, pixel-fit experiences for customers
• Build an engineering culture that attracts the most talented people to join us

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You love tackling ambitious projects with the ability to change DeFi as we know it
• You care about all aspects of customer experience
• You can see things from a high level, and dive into the details with equal confidence
• You think DeFi can improve day-to-day financial tooling

… and you really care about these details

• You want to create brand new experiences
• You can operate autonomously
• You are pro-active and are driven by curiosity
• You can build robust systems on both web and native platforms
• You can handle complexity, but prefer simplicity

Tools we are using today

• Go
• Typescript
• Gitlab
• Docker
• Postgresql
• Redis

Benefits

• $150k-$225k
• Stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible vacation policy

We’re headquartered in Chicago, we would love to have you in the office, but we’re also open to remote North American applicants.