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Gauntlet US
Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $35 billion in customer TVL. Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City. Gauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future . Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges f

Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $35 billion in customer TVL.

Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.

Gauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st-century financial innovation.

We are looking for engineers for a few projects! See below:

Pivot/Courier Services

We’re developing an algorithmic trading platform to optimize strategies Gauntlet oversees on-chain to capture opportunities across DeFi. We’re looking for a product-focused systems generalist to work with users to define requirements and build the system’s required components!

Data & Models

We develop & own the services that power Gauntlet’s platform, including all our model capture, infrastructure, deployments & tools to support & scale our systems!

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable systems for data from DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, and various other data sources
  • Contribute to making our platform world-class
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their system requirements and provide the necessary support to help their productivity.
  • Implement quality control measures to ensure system integrity and quality
  • Actively participate in code and design reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and maintaining high coding standards
  • Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure the continuous improvement of the platform
  • Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and user guides
  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software defects, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability

Qualifications

  • At least 4 years of professional development experience. More is better but we’re flexible
  • Experience with building backend systems.
  • Experience developing production-quality software in high-performance languages. We currently use Python and Typescript but are open to exceptional language agnostic candidates.
  • Experience with dynamic isolated environments and operational alerting
  • Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and related technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.
  • Ability to quickly internalize abstract concepts in new domains, coupled with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work independently and within a team, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment
  • Interests or passion for DeFi and the broader crypto ecosystem, with a willingness to immerse oneself in the space.

Bonus Points

  • Experience working in the crypto industry is a plus but is not required.
  • Background in working with complex data sets in data-rich environments
  • Experience with languages and tooling related to complex streaming problems
  • Familiarity with cloud solutions like Google Cloud Platform or AWS

Benefits and Perks

  • Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
  • Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation
  • Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country “office visit” perk
  • 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
  • Laptop provided
  • $1,600 WFH stipend upon joining
  • $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
  • Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
  • Fertility benefits

Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.

The national pay range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.

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Pond North America
Pond is pioneering blockchain’s foundational models by leveraging graph deep learning to predict on-chain behaviors and accelerate the development of AI-powered, crypto-native applications. Its solutions target key sectors including DeFi, social networks, trading, MEV, and security, utilizing an innovative, decentralized AI development process. The technical team brings extensive expertise from leading graph AI companies such as WeChat, TigerGraph, and Yuga Labs. With a remarkable track record of over 40 publications in prestigious journals and conferences—such as IEEE, Nature, Harvard Business Review, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, and PNAS—the team is at the forefront of cutting-edge AI research and application. Our $7.5M seed round is led by Archetype, with participation from Cyber Fund (Lido founder’s fund, which rarely invests directly, backed Solana pre-seed and Ethereum pre-ICO), Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Digital and Anagram (the fund of Solana’s pres

Pond is pioneering blockchain’s foundational models by leveraging graph deep learning to predict on-chain behaviors and accelerate the development of AI-powered, crypto-native applications. Its solutions target key sectors including DeFi, social networks, trading, MEV, and security, utilizing an innovative, decentralized AI development process.

The technical team brings extensive expertise from leading graph AI companies such as WeChat, TigerGraph, and Yuga Labs. With a remarkable track record of over 40 publications in prestigious journals and conferences—such as IEEE, Nature, Harvard Business Review, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, and PNAS—the team is at the forefront of cutting-edge AI research and application.

Our $7.5M seed round is led by Archetype, with participation from Cyber Fund (Lido founder’s fund, which rarely invests directly, backed Solana pre-seed and Ethereum pre-ICO), Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Digital and Anagram (the fund of Solana’s president and former president of Polychain).

We have a 30+ wide range of angels in DeFi, MEV, social, security, and more including the co-founder of Near, the co-founder of ENS, CTO of Exo Labs, co-founders of Plume Network, COO of Matrixport, the Head of Market Research of Flashbots, the founder of Mamori, the founder of SEDA, former GP of Variant—Spencer Noon, the founder of Zerion, the founder of Nuffle, the founder of OpenGradient, and others.

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The role:

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Smart Contract Engineer to join our innovative blockchain team. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in developing and deploying smart contracts and be deeply familiar with blockchain technologies. As a Blockchain Smart Contract Engineer, your main task is to develop, test, and maintain smart contracts on different blockchains according to business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, test, and deploy smart contracts on blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Base, or Solana.
  • Collaborate with the development team to create and implement decentralized applications (DApps).
  • Write high-quality, secure, and sustainable code for blockchain applications.
  • Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
  • Maintain and optimize existing blockchain applications and smart contracts.
  • Work closely with project managers and other stakeholders to define and achieve project goals.
  • Stay updated with the latest blockchain technologies and cryptographic methods.
  • Contribute to the architecture and design decisions for blockchain systems.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 2+ years of experience in blockchain development.
  • Strong proficiency in Solidity and other smart contract languages.
  • Experience with blockchain development frameworks and tools (e.g., Truffle, Hardhat, Remix).
  • Understanding of consensus algorithms and blockchain protocols.
  • Knowledge of front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for DApp integration.
  • Experience with version control systems, preferably Git.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure.

Preferred Skills:

  • Familiar with Solidity language, and preferably have some understanding of Rust.
  • Familiarity with off-chain storage solutions and integrations (IPFS, The Graph).
  • Understanding of Layer 2 scaling solutions (e.g., Optimism, Arbitrum).
  • Contributions to open-source blockchain projects.
  • Prior experience in a fintech environment.
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