What We’re Building

Ares is the newest product under Fountain Platform, focused on building high-performance social trading platform for decentralized markets.

We believe trading has evolved — it’s no longer solitary. It’s cultural. It’s real-time. It’s driven by memes, narratives, and reflexive attention loops. Yet most platforms are stuck in static tools built for yesterday’s market structure.

Ares is built for what trading has become — and where it’s going. We fuse speed, signal, social mechanics, and cultural context into a unified trading experience designed for today’s markets — and tomorrow’s meta. At the core is a real-time intelligence layer that aggregates onchain and offchain data, surfacing the pulse of the market as it emerges. But information alone isn’t power — influence is. Ares turns trading into a collaborative, reputation-driven game where every trade is a signal, and every user is a node of intelligence.

We’re not building a better terminal. We’re building the next dominant trading platform — one where culture leads, conviction is rewarded, and traders move markets together.

We’re backed by top VCs and Alliance (tier 1 crypto incubator). This is your opportunity to help define what the future of trading looks like — from the ground up. This isn’t a typical job — and we’re not looking for typical people. We want resourceful, hungry, top 1% builders who move fast and think like founders.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a product-driven senior or staff-level engineer. Our engineering team tackles complex challenges at the core of our trading infrastructure and user experience. At Ares, engineering defines the culture, pace, and quality of everything we build — pushing the limits of what’s possible in crypto-native systems.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with the CEO and have transparency into other aspects of the company
• Architect important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges via thoughtful long-term planning
• Design and implement core infrastructure across the full stack — from high-performance frontends in Next.js + Tailwind to backend systems in NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Solana RPCs
• Work on transactional engines that optimize for execution speed, accuracy, and UX under volatile, memecoin-driven conditions
• Drive the architecture of our real-time trading intelligence layer, fusing onchain and offchain signals into actionable interfaces
• Build integrations with external services (Telegram, bots, alerting engines) to power novel product experiences
• Ship fast and often — we deploy product daily and treat working code as the ultimate source of truth
• Collaborate directly with founders and a small team of senior engineers in a high-bandwidth, fast feedback loop
• Engage with early users — from CT influencers to alpha groups — and shape features around real workflows
• Take ownership over what you build, with freedom to make autonomous decisions and move without bureaucracy

Our Tech Stack

Tech Stack: Nest.js, Solana, Redis, Postgresql, Typescript, Nodejs, Materialize, gRPC, Drizzle, Websocket, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have full-stack experience, ideally in performance-sensitive environments (e.g., crypto, fintech, gaming, real-time apps)
• Thrive in fast-paced, product-centric orgs where speed, autonomy, and ownership are the norm
• Can move independently but also communicate clearly in async workflows
• Care deeply about craft, clean abstractions, and performance
• Have strong user empathy and can translate real behavior into real product
• Have understanding of crypto and trading — and care about the details of how and why traders behave the way they do
• Want to work with other A-players — people who think like founders and ship like it

Why Join Us

• Work with a passionate team that is obsessed over product, velocity, and craft
• Ship real infrastructure that’s used by traders and degens daily — the kind of users who demand speed, precision, and performance
• Leave your mark on a product that could reshape how crypto trading is understood — not just features, but the foundation of how people will trade in the social-first, memetic era of DeFi
• It’s all greenfield — no legacy baggage, no bureaucratic blockers, just you, a fast team, and the freedom to build what you think should exist
• We’re backed by top investors and Alliance DAO, with deep ties to the best minds in DeFi
• Total flexibility — async, remote, and built for real builders who want to own their time and output
• You won’t be another cog. You’ll be a core part of shaping the next dominant trading platform

About GFX Labs

At Oku, we aim to close the gap between the CeFi and DeFi trading experiences. It is no mistake that 95% of crypto trading occurs on centralized platforms like Binance and Coinbase since their organizations have spent substantially more time and resources investing in their trading interface, while DeFi has primarily been focused on infrastructure and protocols for the last several years.

However, that is going to change soon. While CeFi organizations enjoy their Web2 stack, a Web3 company like Oku can leverage the composability of the DeFi ecosystem and blockchain technology to offer a high-quality trading experience that will eventually be indistinguishable from CeFi and, in the long run, overcome their legacy systems. That is why Oku has 50+ partners in or supporting the app.

Oku initially started as a project within GFX Labs after they received a $1.6M grant from the Uniswap Foundation in October 2022 to build and launch a reimagined trading interface, analytics platform, and API for Uniswap v3. After ten months of development, Oku launched in July 2023, and since then, Oku has supported the DAO Uniswap’s efforts to expand across new blockchains.

Today, our primary feature is our smart order routing system, which integrates 12+ order routing systems to ensure all users find the best price possible. We have also adapted our order routing technology to offer a bridge aggregator with 11+ integrated bridges. Most recently, to close the CeFi/DeFi gap further, we added on/off-ramping with USD and EURO to our interface at an industry-low fee of free! Our other popular features include trustless onchain limit orders built directly on Uniswap v3, our position manager page for users who want to manage their LP positions, and our Uniswap v3 analytics.

Over the coming years, Oku will be expanding the scope of our offering and improving the quality of our user experience.

Why work at Oku?

Any firm can pay a high salary and offer good incentives (as will we), but most can’t offer interesting, challenging, and rewarding work.

We have something to prove. Our team is young and hungry. We like to move fast and make things. We know when to double down and when to cut our losses. We are going to make mistakes, and we are going to build a better product because of them. We don’t micromanage or have a huge team of product managers. We want self starters who take charge and solve problems.

We don’t care if you went to school, what grades you got, or your age. Show us what you have built, what problems you have solved, and what skills you have.

About the role

As a Software Engineer at Oku Trade, you’ll work alongside our engineering team to maintain and improve both our backend services and frontend applications. This role offers the opportunity to work on meaningful projects with real impact while growing your skills across our technology stack.

You’ll contribute to core components of our platform, including APIs, data processing routines, blockchain indexing, on-chain interactions across EVM chains, and React-based user interfaces. Working closely with senior engineers, you’ll have the space to implement improvements and tackle challenging problems that directly affect our users.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve backend APIs in Golang and Node.js that handle high-throughput blockchain data and serve real-time market information
• Work with EVM blockchain data, including parsing transaction logs, decoding smart contract events, and maintaining indexing services that track on-chain activity
• Enhance our React frontend applications, focusing on performance optimization and user experience improvements for DeFi interfaces
• Implement features across both backend and frontend, ensuring seamless data flow from blockchain to user interface

You might be great for this role if you have:

• 2+ years of Golang development experience with strong backend engineering skills
• Hands-on experience with Web3 development, particularly working with EVM chains and understanding concepts of transaction indexing, MEV, and DeFi protocols
• Strong React skills with experience building responsive, data-heavy interfaces
• Enthusiasm for diving deep into complex systems and learning new technologies
• Desire to grow your skills by working on challenging problems across the stack

What you’ll do at Oku.Trade:

• Work on critical infrastructure that processes millions of blockchain transactions daily while implementing new features to expand our capabilities
• Contribute to improving our blockchain indexing architecture and API design as we scale to support more chains and protocols
• Collaborate with a small team where your work has a visible impact on the product
• Gain experience with production systems that thousands of users rely on daily

We’d love to hear from you if you’re excited about:

• Growing your engineering skills by working on real-world blockchain challenges
• Contributing to systems that make DeFi more accessible and understandable
• Working in a collaborative environment where you can learn from experienced engineers while making meaningful contributions
• Building your expertise at the intersection of traditional web development and blockchain technology

Tools we are using today:

• Golang, React, Node, Figma
• Postgresql, Temporal, NATS, Clickhouse
• Gitlab and Github
• DigitalOcean, fly.io, Kubernetes, KNative, Pulumi

About CoW DAO

CoW DAO is on a mission to protect Ethereum users from MEV and optimize trade execution across DeFi. We achieve this through the CoW Protocol, CoW Swap (a leading intent-based DEX aggregator), and the innovative MEV Blocker, which together help secure, aggregate, and route trades for optimal outcomes. We also fund values-aligned projects via the CoW Grants Program.

CoW Protocol is consistently ranked among the top DEX aggregators by monthly volume and is the largest intent-based exchange. Our MEV Blocker protects trades from harmful MEV extraction and is integrated across the Ethereum ecosystem. The CoW AMM is the only live AMM designed to protect liquidity providers from LVR (loss-versus-rebalancing).

With over 100 open-source repositories on GitHub, we’re transparent, community-driven, and deeply committed to the open-source ethos. Our real-time Dune Analytics dashboard showcases billions in cumulative trading volume and a rapidly growing user base. As we continue to scale, CoW DAO remains at the forefront of DeFi innovation, prioritizing security, efficiency, and decentralization.

Learn more

• Location: Fully remote (Preference for Europe or remote ±4 hours CEST)
• Contract Type: Full-time contractor
• Note: Please note we are not hiring from the US, Australia, or New Zealand

About the role

At CoW DAO data plays a central role in how we understand on-chain activity and operate our fair combinatory auction system.

We’re looking for a Data Engineer who’s excited to dive deep into blockchain data (Ethereum and other L1/L2s), enrich it with insights from our off-chain auction system, and build the pipelines and infrastructure to support operations and analytics. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work across teams, design scalable systems, and make high-quality data accessible and actionable across the organization.

If you thrive in a fast-moving environment, love working with complex datasets, and want to shape the data foundation of a leading DeFi protocol, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with teams across the company to understand their data needs and provide actionable insights
• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and infrastructure for ingesting and processing on-chain and off-chain data
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and discoverability through testing, monitoring, and documentation
• Create tools and systems that make it easy to access, query, and visualize data (using tools like Redash, Metabase, or Looker)
• Keep an eye on the evolving blockchain data ecosystem—experiment with new tools and techniques to stay ahead
• Own your work end-to-end: from initial idea to deployment and maintenance

Who you are

• Solid experience designing and maintaining scalable data architectures (data lakes, warehouses, pipelines)
• Strong coding skills in Python and SQL
• Comfortable working with blockchain data providers and APIs (e.g. Dune, Etherscan, CoinGecko)
• Familiar with decoding Ethereum transactions and simulation tools (e.g. Tenderly, Phalcon)
• Experience with modern data orchestration frameworks (Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect)
• You write clean, tested, and well-reviewed code and follow best practices for deployment and monitoring
• You’re a self-starter, collaborative, and not afraid to take ownership

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Previous experience in a startup or high-growth environment
• Experience contributing to or using open-source data/analytics tools in the Web3 space

## What We Can Offer You

• Flexible work environment: Join our hub in Lisbon whenever you want or work remotely
• Token plan: Have a stake in our mission and shape the future of CoW DAO
• Periodic gatherings: Meet your teammates in person during regular team retreats
• Conference allocation: Stay up to date with the latest in Web3 using our conference budget
• Learning budget: Support for personal and professional development
• Hardware budget: Set yourself up with the tools you need
• Flat hierarchies: Have more ownership and less red tape
• Flexible time off: Balance your personal and work life
• Make an impact: Your contributions directly influence the direction and success of the protocol
• Growth: Take initiative, own projects, and accelerate your learning and growth

Referral Program

Earn 4,000 USDC/USD through our refer-to-earn program. More details here

Culture

Life within the CoW Protocol is an incredible adventure! We take pride in our collaborative approach, embracing autonomy and fostering a culture of big thinking and continuous growth. We value impact, ownership, simplicity, and team spirit. Plus, we’re all about feedback, coming together, and enjoying the journey along the way!

At CoW Protocol, we strive to create a space where everyone feels included and empowered. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences. All qualified applicants are considered for positions regardless of race, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, marital status, gender identification, sexual orientation, or physical ability.

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