HFT & Blockchain Software Engineer
Usher Labs develops cryptographic and financial technology connecting private off-chain data and liquidity to decentralized finance and capital-efficient on-chain markets.
About Usher Labs
Usher Labs is a privately held Australian blockchain/Web3 company founded in 2022. Its current work centers on Verity, a zkTLS/MPC-TLS framework and network for proving the authenticity, integrity, privacy, and lineage of off-chain data used by blockchain applications. It also presents Fiet as financial-market infrastructure for professional market makers, stablecoin FX, and tokenized assets. Its earlier Log Store Network provides decentralized storage and delivery infrastructure for real-time streaming data.
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About the Role
You will develop and optimise high-frequency trading systems with a focus on blockchain-based MEV, data analysis, blockchain data indexers and processing. You will build and maintain data pipelines, integrate trading systems with decentralised exchange protocols and DeFi primitives, and contribute tools and infrastructure that let token issuers create markets and launch IDOs on DEXs. You will keep systems scalable, secure and low-latency, and stay current with trends in blockchain, DeFi and high-frequency trading.
Requirements
- Proven experience or demonstrable capability in developing high-frequency trading systems, blockchain MEV strategies or related low-latency systems
- Strong understanding of blockchain technology, decentralised exchanges and DeFi primitives
- Familiarity with blockchain data indexers and processing is highly desirable
- Advanced skills in programming languages such as Python, C++, Rust or Solidity, focused on performance-critical applications
- Experience in data analysis and processing in blockchain or financial systems
- Exceptional ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and optimise high-frequency trading systems
- Implement and enhance blockchain MEV strategies
- Develop and maintain blockchain data indexers and processing pipelines
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate trading systems with decentralised exchange protocols and DeFi primitives
- Contribute to tools and infrastructure that enable token issuers to create markets and launch IDOs on DEXs
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure and optimised for low-latency performance
- Stay abreast of emerging trends in blockchain, DeFi and high-frequency trading