About the role

What will you do at deCircle?

Paxos Labs builds enterprise infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted onchain financial products. We work with the largest financial enterprises in the world to build transparent and verifiable onchain infrastructure that works for end users and everyday financial use cases. If you believe in bringing DeFi and digital assets to the mainstream, consider building your career at Paxos Labs.

We're hiring a DeFi Backend Engineer to help scale Paxos Labs's DeFi infrastructure capabilities. We are open to candidates of varying levels of experience for this role. The team at Paxos Labs builds DeFi infrastructure that reimagines the way on-chain liquidity strategies are handled.

Strategies and risk management are delegated to sophisticated actors who act from compute done in a data rich offchain environment—all the while maintaining onchain constraints that enforce user safety. We are looking for a motivated developer that can not only develop, but aptly research and deploy extensive knowledge across TradFi and DeFi to execute state-of-the-art risk curation and yield optimization in DeFi..

Most importantly, we are looking for developers with interests in the following: Quantitative Risk Analysis DeFi Trading Strategies Performant Backend Engineering Responsibilities Financial Collaborate closely with a Quantitative Researcher to manage a portfolio of yield generating opportunities across protocols and blockchains. Manage algorithm design and back testing to produce actionable insights for DeFi portfolio management.

Engineering Automate complex onchain interactions interacting with various DeFi protocols via offchain services. Monitor data, forecast risk, and implement optimized triggers to enter opportunistic strategies or exit black swan events before anyone else in the market. Maintain trading infrastructure and tools to guarantee operational security and to reduce trust assumptions for our users.

Build solvers that can find the optimal routing through various DEXs to construct transactions that can process multiple swaps in batch.

Which skills does this role require?

DeFiBackend EngineeringQuantitative Risk AnalysisTrading StrategiesAlgorithm DesignBacktestingBlockchainSmart ContractsDEX RoutingRisk ManagementYield OptimizationFinancial InfrastructureData AnalysisOperational SecurityYield GenerationDEXOnchainOffchainSolversTradFiLiquidity StrategiesPortfolio ManagementProtocols

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