Staff/Senior Trading Technology Engineer
Ethena is a DeFi protocol enabling the creation of USDe, a synthetic dollar, and offering internet-native yield through staking.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Ethena
Ethena is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to mint USDe, a synthetic dollar, using liquid staking tokens as collateral. The platform also offers staking of USDe to earn yield in the form of sUSDe. Ethena aims to provide a stable, high-yield asset for the crypto ecosystem, combining the stability of a dollar-pegged token with the benefits of decentralized finance.
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About the Role
Design and implement a next-generation trading platform with market data pipelines, multi-venue integrations, execution capabilities, trading strategies, and resilient low-latency systems. Apply test automation and modern engineering practices while optimizing throughput, availability, execution quality, and fault tolerance.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and supporting trading infrastructure, including market data feed handlers, algorithmic engines, backtesting frameworks, and execution platforms
- Expertise in TDD, BDD, CI/CD, SOLID, modular code, clean code, and resilient system design
- Deep understanding of financial markets, trading mechanisms, security protocols, and multi-venue infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with centralized crypto exchanges and derivatives such as perpetual swaps and deliverable futures
- Understanding of order routing, trade reconciliation, and execution quality optimization
- Expertise in low-latency, high-throughput system design
- Strong problem-solving and strategic technical decision-making skills
- Hands-on experience with unit, integration, regression, performance, and end-to-end testing
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a robust trading platform
- Build high-performance market data pipelines
- Integrate multiple trading venues using REST, WebSocket, FIX, and other protocols
- Develop trading strategies and execution logic with quant and trading teams
- Apply TDD, BDD, test automation, CI/CD, and SOLID principles
- Design fault-tolerant architectures and failover mechanisms
- Optimize system performance, throughput, latency, and execution quality
- Support reliable trading platform operations
