Gravity Team

Senior Software Engineer – Perps Trading Team

Gravity Team  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

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.

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Rust) to join our Perpetual Futures Trading team and help scale the core infrastructure behind our automated derivatives strategies. You’ll work on expanding and strengthening our exchange connectivity layer, while continuously improving the performance and resilience of our existing trading stack.

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.

Gravity Team

About Gravity Team

Trading since 2017, Gravity Team is one of the leading crypto market makers and liquidity providers, with cumulative trading volumes to date in excess of $400 billion.

We provide 24/7 crypto liquidity to 1,400+ crypto-asset pairs across 30+ exchanges located in over 15 countries worldwide, making ~1% of the global spot trading volume. The company is in a high-growth phase as we continue to expand our team of ~60 top talent.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Unknown
Year Founded
2017
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