Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Wintermute

At Wintermute our mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products. We do this by providing liquidity algorithmically across most trading venues in crypto, supporting all major centralized and decentralized trading venues, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and chains. Wintermute is also offering best-in-class OTC products to crypto native as well as traditional financial institutions. Wintermute is actively participating in the building and development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments from Wintermute Ventures, partnerships and co-development with upcoming protocols and incubation of own projects. We act as official market makers for a large number of the world’s highest profile blockchain projects. Wintermute is a hyper-growth highly profitable business with a very ambitious vision and roadmap. We manage billions of dollars in assets and trade more than $5B/day. We are backed by Lightspeed, Pantera Capital, Sino Global Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Avon Ventures by Fidelity Investments, DeFi Alliance and other top tier investors. We are run as a technology company, not a financial service provider, and we build our culture around core values of ambition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, transparency and meritocracy.

Working at Wintermute

At Wintermute you will have an opportunity to grow professionally and make direct impact on the business. You will work very closely with traders, trading platform developers, business operations and management/founders. You’ll have an opportunity to improve your knowledge of building high-performance scalable applications, understand broader system architecture and to understand algorithmic crypto currency trading - a great chance to grow and make direct impact on revenue whilst getting a lot of independence and responsibility right away, and you'll learn at an unprecedented speed.

What you will work on

We are looking for Senior Full Stack Engineer who is passionate about building products/applications that people find useful and that help company grow the business. You will be responsible for building completely new front end applications for Wintermute's trading products. A great advantage of this position is that it is varied, and you will have a unique opportunity to shape it, including selecting significant parts of tech stack.

Hard Skills requirements

• Knowledge of modern front end tech stack: node.js, pm, javascript, typescript and popular frameworks (please provide examples of front-ends that you built previously)
• Knowledge of Python, at least intermediate, and desire to learn
• Good understanding of infrastructure required for frontend/servers: CDN, Cloudflare or similar, webservers
• Experience architecting and building web-based application frameworks or big parts of these from scratch; connecting front-end to back-end (direct back-end experience is a plus)
• Experience with fintech, financial services products or other applications that 1) are high volume (e.g. payments, trading transactions, streaming data) and 2) require a high level of security (like e.g. in moving money)

Wintermute Offer

• A unique opportunity to work on very interesting projects, get the level of responsibility and ownership that would be unlikely at any other project or trading firm
• A unique opportunity to join one of the strongest and most successful technology teams globally
• Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet collaborative and entrepreneurial  
• A cool office in central London with a sci-fi touch
• We support significant flexibility in regards to working from home and working hours; however, we require hard/smart work and >60% work from the office; we are unable to accept remote candidates
• Weekly team events, such as team lunches, team dinners, team board games and Dota playing sessions; these are not obligatory in any sense, but this is what we like to do
• Aligned incentive structure: a significant part of your compensation is similar to that of owners - significant performance-based variable pay and the best thing - your contribution directly impacts both and the upside is unlimited
• We offer standard perks too, like pension, private health insurance, free food and office gym, but that’s probably not the right reason to join us
• We offer UK work permits and help in relocation

Write to us if you

• Love coding, love problem solving, and love seeing your products work
• Love building things
• Are curious about algorithmic trading and financial markets
• Are determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard and learn on the way
• Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver
• Like working like an owner and not having a 9-to-5 or contractor mentality
• Like working in the team environment (not fully remote), at least >60% working from our London office (COVID restrictions allowing)

Tips for a successful application

• Only apply to us if you are genuinely interested or curious about this role (both company and the role specifically); this is not for someone who is just looking for "a job"
• Do some basic research - look at Wintermute website, LinkedIn, Twitter channels
• Write us a short, honest, and direct message if you'd like to apply. Tell us about why you are interested in Wintermute and in this role. Do not send us generic copy paste applications, we are looking for authentic people who share our interests, values and ambitions!
• We are able to arrange a UK visa sponsorship for the right candidates