Senior Software Engineer– Perps Trading Team, Amsterdam

At Gravity Team, a quantitative proprietary trading firm, we are on a mission to balance the supply and demand across crypto markets around the world. Join our community of innovators, problem solvers and owners who apply scientific discovery techniques to make crypto markets a better place for everyone.

What you will work on

Build and maintain low-latency, robust integrations with centralized and decentralized exchanges (CEXs/DEXs), with a strong focus on perpetual futures markets

Develop and maintain high-performance asynchronous Rust services handling: real-time market data ingestion; order execution; position and funding tracking; reconciliation and risk-sensitive workflows

Contribute to internal trading logic, analytics, or execution optimization systems over time

Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and reliability in a perps trading environment

Contribute to multi-month infrastructure upgrades, including SDK-level improvements

Maintain and improve existing integration pipelines and deployment workflows

Collaborate closely with strategy developers and trading infrastructure teams to support internal tooling, trading bots, and latency-sensitive services

Contribute to internal trading logic, analytics, or execution optimization systems over time

What we expect

Minimum of 5 years of experience of successfully building&maintaining complex backend systems (deep tech products, backend systems with deep business logic, algorithms, financial applications, etc.)

Strong professional experience in Rust (must-have), with a proven track record of writing performant, clean, and maintainable asynchronous code

Solid experience with async programming paradigms (e.g., tokio, async-std)

Strong systems programming mindset and understanding of performance optimization

Familiarity with PostgreSQL and relational database performance considerations

Attention to detail when working with third-party APIs, order lifecycle management, reconciliation logic, and failure handling

Understanding of exchange mechanics: order books, market data feeds, funding rates, liquidation logic, and trading flows

Trading experience (especially in derivatives or perpetual futures markets) is a major plus

Exposure to quantitative finance, derivatives mechanics, or stochastic calculus is a plus

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment with a high bar for quality

Basic statistics knowledge

Proficiency in English

Our promise to you We offer you driver seat in worlds crypto-sphere and hands-on insight into one of the most exciting and lucrative industries today. Our work contributes to transforming the current financial industry and democratising access to digital goods across the world.

Conditions

Work together with a highly talented team

Possibility to participate at worlds crypto events, with a very real and tangible impact on many crypto markets across the world

Fast-moving, challenging, and unique business problems

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours, casual work attire and startup atmosphere

Learning&Development budget 3000 EUR a year

Benefits that you can combine yourself– free food, bolt taxi, Sports, Spa&Wellness etc.

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