Staff Backend Engineer developing scalable backend systems for Glider.fi, an innovative crypto trading platform. Designing data models and optimizing trading strategies in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems using Node.js (TypeScript), MySQL/Drizzle, Axiom, and Sentry to support the evolving needs of Glider’s platform.
Help structure and optimize Glider’s data models while contributing to liquidity analysis, PNL optimization, and performance monitoring.
Implement and maintain time-series-based monitoring systems to track and analyze trading strategies, performance, and liquidity.
Work closely with python-based solvers and verifier networks to enhance strategy execution and ensure safe, efficient rebalancing of portfolios.
Solve complex technical challenges in a fast-paced, innovative environment while continuously pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in DeFi.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in backend software engineering with a strong understanding of data systems, crypto trading, and performance monitoring.
Strong expertise in Node.js (TypeScript), MySQL, Python
Experience with time-series-based monitoring, liquidity analysis, and PNL optimization
Familiarity with Verifier Networks like Eigenlayer
Proficient in data modeling within the trading domain (ie schemas for Glider’s block strategies)
Proven ability to design and implement novel solutions in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment.
A strong believer in data-based decision-making, with the ability to structure and analyze complex data models.
A deep interest in the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance ecosystem, with a desire to explore and expand what is possible on-chain.
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