Role Overview
We're hiring a DeFi Backend Engineer to help scale Paxos Labs's DeFi infrastructure capabilities. The team builds DeFi infrastructure that reimagines on-chain liquidity strategies, delegating strategy and risk management to sophisticated offchain compute while maintaining strong onchain safety constraints.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a Quantitative Researcher to manage yield-generating portfolios across protocols and blockchains.
- Design and backtest algorithms to produce actionable DeFi portfolio insights.
- Automate complex onchain interactions via offchain services.
- Monitor data, forecast risk, and implement optimized entry and exit triggers.
- Maintain secure, reliable trading infrastructure.
- Build solvers for optimal routing across decentralized exchanges.
DeFi Expertise
- Deep knowledge of DeFi protocols including liquid staking, AMMs, lending protocols, perp DEXs, and RFQs/routers.
Data & Risk
- Strong data engineering skills analyzing smart contract events and onchain history.
- Understanding of financial risk management, statistics, and portfolio optimization.
- Experience managing trading or yield strategies onchain or in traditional finance.
Infrastructure & Engineering
- Experience building performant offchain infrastructure using EVM RPCs and related tooling.
- Strong database knowledge (SQL, Postgres, Supabase).
- DevOps experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud tooling.
- Familiarity with Solidity, Foundry, and MEV or order-flow systems.
