About the company
At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance! By joining us at this early stage, youāll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets. Paradigm is a zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi. We provide unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on execution preferences, costs, and immediacy. Weāve built the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto, with over 1000 institutional clients trading over $10 B per month. We are a diverse, global team led by our organizational principles and united by our mission to bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere, without compromises. We also strive to ship faster than anyone else in the industry! We are backed by the best traders and investors in the space, including Jump Capital, Genesis Trading, Dragonfly Capital, QCP Capital, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Fidelity Digital Assets CMT Digital, Goldentree Asset Management, Amber Group, OK Group, Bybit Fintech, and CoinShares.
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities:
šCollaborating with the engineering team and with the Starknet team to drive Paradex blockchain initiatives. Some examples of projects are : šWork with the blockchain engineers to develop creative solutions and design gas-efficient smart contract code to support the increasing system complexity (expanding the list of markets, options, portfolio margining, multi-collateral) šDesign a robust Escape Hatch solution for Paradex develop a robust escape hatch mechanism that ensures the safety of users' funds in emergency scenarios šDriving gas cost optimization initiatives and monitoring/modeling gas costs šDesign a mechanism for L2 data encryption to ensure tradersā data privacy šUsing proofs to verify complex off-chain calculations - For example instruments pricing and order matching šLead blockchain engineering discussions and make technology decisions related to product strategy and features. šWill write blog posts and whitepapers to develop awareness of our cutting edge products, tech stack and market
Requirements:
šMSc Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent field. šExperience working with complex software systems and with algorithms šArticulating the overall vision and breaking it down into clear products and features šIntroducing complex ideas in an approachable manner šDemonstrating leadership capabilities and high communication skills
