DeFi Engineer
Company Overview: Dialectic, a crypto-native organization of builders and capital advisors, is seeking a senior-level investment professional to join the team on a full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing team, focused on investing in and building compelling software in emerging crypto and blockchain technologies. We produce outlier results through a series of diversified investment strategies in the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Job Summary: We are offering a DeFi Engineer position for a person with strong quantitative and development skills and EVM-DeFi knowledge. The successful candidate should be able to analyse complex DeFi interactions at the smart-contract level, reverse-engineer the functioning of DeFi protocols and produce proof-of-concept code to illustrate the functioning of protocols, and ultimately integrate them in our onchain execution stack.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analysing existing and novel DeFi protocols and understanding the key mechanisms at play to interact with the protocol.
- Producing proof-of-concept code proving the understanding of the protocol and its mechanisms.
- Translating this knowledge into production ready integrations in our proprietary stack.
- Being able to simulate and test the developed integrations in the context of the Dialectic books.
- Producing analyses and reports in the form of notebooks to illustrate functioning of protocol interactions and research output.
- Work closely with the Software team to implement required features to support new integrations.
- Work closely with the portfolio managers to understand their current needs, and proactively suggest operations.
Key Requirements:
- Deep understanding of EVM-DeFi protocols and capital flows in DeFi.
- Ability to investigate onchain transactions using existing and custom tools.
- Background in sciences, finance or computer/data science with a deep understanding of financial markets.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, be independent and be flexible.
- Development skills in Python.
- Skills in other Languages such as Rust and Solidity would be considered a strong asset.
- Ability to find and clean data with respect to opaque markets.
- Advanced data visualization skills would be considered a strong asset.
- Self-motivated, disciplined and detail-oriented.
Benefits:
- Dynamic and collegiality in a small team working in fields that are shaping the future of our society.
- As a modern employer, we offer you contemporary working conditions, a lot of space to develop yourself alongside the company as well as exciting and challenging projects.
- Competetive compensation, bonus and participation opportunities.
- Exposure to extremely talented people and very interesting clients who have unique investment profiles.
- Supportive work and team atmosphere with flat hierarchies and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
- Dialectic is an equal-opportunity employer with strong diverse workforce.
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