Senior Market Infrastructure Software Engineer

Steakhouse Financial’s mission is to pioneer open and transparent finance. We empower leading DAOs and crypto-native companies (like MakerDAO, Lido, ENS, Morpho, Badger, Arbitrum, M^0, Mountain, …) through strategic advisory, while simultaneously building the next generation of DeFi market infrastructure including Real-World Assets. Some of our focus areas include curating efficient lending markets, market making and actively participating in markets via a proprietary trading desk to enhance liquidity and overall market health.

We are gathering the best minds in finance, legal, data and now software to build the future of finance.

About the Role

As the Senior Market Infrastructure Software Engineer, you’ll be the technical lead behind the software infrastructure powering efficient DeFi markets. You’ll not only develop and maintain critical systems, but also play a key role in shaping the future of financial markets through your code.

Our current infrastructure already monitors and operates our Morpho vaults (>$80M TVL) while managing corporate funds exposure. We are looking for a talent to help us evolve it to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of our market infrastructure codebase in Python and extend it to scale with our strategic objectives
• Implement rigorous testing, monitoring, and security practices to ensure the reliability, performance, and resilience of the developed software tools and platforms against potential vulnerabilities and exploits
• Build tooling and automation to improve the developer and operational experience
• Drive and effectively manage ad hoc projects and investigation as necessary

Our Ideal Candidate

We’re looking for someone with:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python including architecture, type system, testing and lifecycle management
• Capacity to read and understand smart contracts and integrate Python code with them.
• Capacity to write production smart contracts as a plus
• Experience of market infrastructure either TradFi, CeFi or DeFi
• Understand market making, the difference between Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer
• Entrepreneurial spirit and mindset, you are a self-starter, driven, and love building
• Not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty
• Detail oriented and very rigorous
• Proactive and autonomous
• DeFi user

What’s in it for you

Be part of an ecosystem that encourages transparency and alignment with open-source methodologies and principles.

• Participate in shaping the next financial markets, your code will move millions on day one
• Contribute to high-impact projects that will drive the growth of decentralized finance
• Competitive compensation including bonus and equity
• Work within a remote and highly collaborative team consisting of diverse experts
• 100% remote with opportunities to travel to team events and conferences