Head of Trading
BNB Chain is a community-led blockchain ecosystem powered by BNB, composed of BNB Smart Chain (L1), opBNB (L2) and BNB Greenfield (storage). In 2024, Beacon Chain functions fused into BSC.
Maintainer signals as of 8/13/2026
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About BNB Chain
BNB Chain is an open, permissionless blockchain ecosystem for building Web3 apps. It includes BNB Smart Chain (EVM L1), opBNB (L2), and BNB Greenfield for decentralized storage, all powered by the BNB token. The network rebranded from Binance Chain/Smart Chain to BNB Chain in 2022, and in 2024 migrated Beacon Chain staking/governance to BSC as part of the BNB Chain Fusion.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead trading strategy and market structure for a new chain. You will design validator and MEV frameworks, build products for market makers and institutional traders, manage relationships across trading and infrastructure, bootstrap liquidity for high-demand assets, and produce actionable strategies for MEV market structure and competitive positioning.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of MEV
- PBS
- builders
- validators
- searchers
- bundles
- private mempools
- block construction
- Perp DEX mechanics
- Order book market structure
- AMM market structure
- Uniswap V3
- Uniswap V4
- PancakeSwap V2
- PancakeSwap V3
- Aggregators
- Lending
- Liquidations
- PropAMM
- RFQ systems
- Solver-based architectures
- OTC desk flows
- Order-flow auctions
- Intent settlement
- On-chain market making
- Liquidity bootstrapping
- Market-maker relationships
- Institutional trading relationships
- MEV searcher experience
- Builder experience
- Validator infrastructure engineering
- DeFi quantification
- Protocol research
- Flashbots
- bloXroute
- Private RPC
- Builder API
- MEV-Share
- Published research
- Open-source tools
- Production systems
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Design a validator and MEV framework for a new chain
- Design products that facilitate on-chain experiences for market makers and institutional traders
- Manage relationships with market makers, institutional traders, hedge funds, builders, and searchers
- Strategize liquidity bootstrapping for assets with high trading demand
- Onboard market makers and institutional traders
- Strengthen relationships across builders, searchers, and trading partners
- Produce actionable strategies on MEV market structure and competitive positioning
