Join Gauntlet, a leading DeFi risk management company, as a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to develop a next-generation dApp for decentralized finance. Lead the design, development, and maintenance of full-stack features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build a robust user-facing experience.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Software Engineer
Salary: $150K - $200K
Location: USA, Canada and would consider candidates based in Puerto Rico
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Job Overview And Responsibility
Description
They lead 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 April 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL.
They 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.
Thier 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. They are 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.
Thier App:
Join a newly formed product pod focused on the their App — our next-generation dApp that allows users to deposit and withdraw into vaults directly. This role is part of a critical initiative to evolve our dashboard into a product directly connected to revenue. You'll be working on a high-impact project tightly aligned with Their core strategy, helping build a robust, user-facing experience at the heart of our business.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of full-stack features for Thier decentralized application, ensuring high performance and scalability
- Partner closely with front-end engineers to deliver cohesive and well-integrated user experiences
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Engage in systems design and architecture discussions to build robust backend services supporting the application
- Participate actively in code reviews and design sessions, promoting best practices and high-quality code standards
- Collaborate with product managers and researchers to translate requirements into effective technical solutions
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software issues to maintain system reliability and performance
Required Skills and Experience
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on full-stack engineering.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript for full-stack development
- Proven ability to design and implement user-centric applications, emphasizing seamless user experiences.
- Solid experience with backend systems and APIs, including systems design and architecture
- Familiarity with Python or the ability to be language agnostic
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with others engineers and mentor team members
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a focus on application development lifecycle
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment
Bonus Points
- Interest or experience in DeFi concepts like decentralized applications (dApps) and on-chain interactions
- Familiarity with financial technology (fintech) products and user experiences.
- Previous work on applications that handle monetary transactions or sensitive user data.
- Familiarity with application development lifecycle from end to end
- Experience developing and shipping user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks such as React
- History utilizing, at any level, technologies and languages like Solidity or Rust
- Experience working in smaller teams or startups, demonstrating broad technical versatility
- Background working with data pipelines or tooling, including ETL processes, orchestration tools and integrating data flows in production environments
Why Candidate should apply this position
Compensation & Package
We provide base salary, On Target Earning potential in terms of cash bonuses & equity refreshers, in addition to your initial equity grant based on our Series B eval
- 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
- $1,000 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
Interview Process
1/ Recruiter / HR Call
Please advise the candidate to research Gauntlet prior to their meeting (their research, blog posts, comms in the forums for projects, their positions, their products, their vaults etc). They have publicly available info on the company and what they have done in the space. They're looking for candidates who are fully prepared.
2/ Hiring Manager Interview
3/ Technical Interview: Can use any backend language (preference for Python!)
4/ Group Interview: 4-5 hour group interview preferably split over two days if needed
Hiring Criteria
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on full-stack engineering.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript for full-stack development
- Experience building financial data
- Experience building a product end to end
- Familiarity with Python or the ability to be language agnostic & Solid experience with backend systems and APIs, including systems design and architecture.
Recruiting Tips
Ideal Candidate profile
Someone who has built a product end to end
Someone who has built financial data
Solid Fullstack experience or a profile that has transitioned from FE to BE (one of the interview rounds is front end focused)
Data Pipelining Experience
IMPORTANT!
They are keen to be introduced to candidates they've never spoken to before. When screening candidates please ensure you're double checking if they've ever applied or interviewed before. Thanks!
Other Key Info:
Crypto/Web3 experience is a nice to have not essential
Rust is a nice to have
About Them
Institutional-grade vaults for decentralized finance
Our vaults provide risk-adjusted DeFi yields for institutional capital at scale. These strategies are optimized by our automated risk platform— designed by the most vigilant, quantitative minds in crypto.
We monitor market conditions to execute on growth opportunities and preserve self-custodial capital by minimizing downside exposure.
Our Applied Research team translates novel DeFi research into actionable protocol optimizations, risk mitigation techniques, and growth strategies.
Through rigorous data analysis, simulation modeling, and economic design principles, we help projects—from early-stage networks to established ecosystems—launch and scale with confidence.
By combining our deep expertise in cryptoeconomics, mechanism design, and traditional finance, we deliver sustainable, data-driven recommendations and systems that reduce systemic risk, enhance protocol stability, and accelerate growth.