Senior Software Engineer – Perps Trading Team
We're looking for strong programmers who thrive in a fast-paced environment!
At Gravity Team, a quantitative proprietary trading firm, we are on a mission to balance the supply and demand across crypto markets around the world. Join our community of innovators, problem solvers and owners who apply scientific discovery techniques to make crypto markets a better place for everyone.
We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Rust) to join our Perpetual Futures Trading team and help scale the core infrastructure behind our automated derivatives strategies. You’ll work on expanding and strengthening our exchange connectivity layer, while continuously improving the performance and resilience of our existing trading stack.
What you will work on
Build and maintain low-latency, robust integrations with centralized and decentralized exchanges (CEXs/DEXs), with a strong focus on perpetual futures markets
Develop and maintain high-performance asynchronous Rust services handling: real-time market data ingestion; order execution; position and funding tracking; reconciliation and risk-sensitive workflows
Contribute to internal trading logic, analytics, or execution optimization systems over time
Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and reliability in a perps trading environment
Contribute to multi-month infrastructure upgrades, including SDK-level improvements
Maintain and improve existing integration pipelines and deployment workflows
Collaborate closely with strategy developers and trading infrastructure teams to support internal tooling, trading bots, and latency-sensitive services
Contribute to internal trading logic, analytics, or execution optimization systems over time
What we expect
Minimum of 5 years of experience of successfully building & maintaining complex backend systems (deep tech products, backend systems with deep business logic, algorithms, financial applications, etc.)
Strong professional experience in Rust (must-have), with a proven track record of writing performant, clean, and maintainable asynchronous code
Solid experience with async programming paradigms (e.g., tokio, async-std)
Strong systems programming mindset and understanding of performance optimization
Familiarity with PostgreSQL and relational database performance considerations
Attention to detail when working with third-party APIs, order lifecycle management, reconciliation logic, and failure handling
Understanding of exchange mechanics: order books, market data feeds, funding rates, liquidation logic, and trading flows
Trading experience (especially in derivatives or perpetual futures markets) is a major plus
Exposure to quantitative finance, derivatives mechanics, or stochastic calculus is a plus
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment with a high bar for quality
Basic statistics knowledge
Proficiency in English
Our promise to you
We offer you driver seat in worlds crypto-sphere and hands-on insight into one of the most exciting and lucrative industries today. Our work contributes to transforming the current financial industry and democratising access to digital goods across the world.
Conditions
Work together with a highly talented team
Possibility to participate at worlds crypto events, with a very real and tangible impact on many crypto markets across the world
Fast-moving, challenging, and unique business problems
Competitive salary
Flexible working hours, casual work attire and startup atmosphere
Learning & Development budget 3000 EUR a year
Benefits that you can combine yourself – free food, bolt taxi, Sports, Spa & Wellness etc.
- Department
- IT
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Locations
- Latvia (Riga), Amsterdam, London
- Remote status
- Hybrid