Full Stack Software Engineer (Golang, DeFi)

VDEX is a fast-growing DeFi startup focused on building a decentralized perpetual exchange. VDEX is backed by Binance Labs and Gate Exchange and passed $10 million in volume last month.

Powered by Virtual Rollups, the VDEX architecture is designed to overcome the performance and cost limitations of traditional blockchain systems by allowing the users to trade with instant finality, ZeroGas fees and omnichain (trade among different chains without requiring any bridge).

VDEX offers competitive salary and generous equity/token.

Level: Mid to Senior

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior developers and blockchain engineers to design and develop backend services in Golang for our DeFi platform and improve our frontend in Typescript.
• Maintain and improve existing backend, frontend, and our smart contracts on EVM chains.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving engineering practices.
• Support integration with new features and DeFi protocols.

Requirements

• Solid programming skills in Golang (Go) and Typescript, or willing to learn.
• Understanding of blockchain fundamentals and DeFi concepts like EVM, tokens, yields.
• Strong backend engineering experience, including designing APIs, services, and distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Clean code principles: writes well-structured, readable, and testable code, adheres to SOLID principles and practices good software design patterns.
• Previous experience in remote first team, or ability to work independently in a remote-first team.
• Knowledge of basic cryptographic principles and key management.
• Comfortable using Git, Docker, AWS and CI/CD tools.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Self-starter mindset and willingness to learn fast.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of traditional finance concepts like order books, perpetuals and trading concepts.
• Ability to reason in mathematical terms and provide formal arguments of correctness and security of a system.
• Experience working with smart contracts (Solidity).
• Familiarity with Ethereum and etherjs library.
• Contributions to other open-source projects or previous work in DeFi and crypto.
• Understanding of performance tuning, observability, and distributed tracing in backend systems.