Senior Software Engineer (API Products)
Posted
Summary
Senior Software Engineer on the API Products team at 0x, building and maintaining developer-facing DeFi APIs (Swap, Gasless, Cross-Chain) that handle billions in volume. Leads projects end-to-end using TypeScript/Rust, requires deep EVM/DeFi expertise, on-call rotation, and cross-chain experience.
- Behind every 0x trade is a lot of hard work. We integrate hundreds of liquidity sources, optimize for gas, slippage and latency, split routes and simulate every result to get traders the best possible outcome
- The API Products team turns that routing logic into easy-to-integrate APIs that wallets, exchanges, trading apps, bridges and developers around the world rely on
- This team of four built, maintains and continues to evolve our flagship Swap, Gasless and Cross-Chain APIs, which have moved billions in volume. Next, they’re building new products that give developers even more tools for building trading apps
- We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to expand what the API Products team can take on
- You’ll lead projects from first idea to production, on new products and on the APIs that are already live, working closely with our product team and some of our biggest customers
- This is a hands-on IC role for someone who wants real ownership and works well with little direction
- Build new APIs and trading products, from researching the problem and designing the architecture to shipping the first version
- Maintain and extend our existing APIs, including support for new chains, bridges and customer-requested features
- Keep our APIs fast and reliable as traffic grows, and participate in the on-call rotation
- Investigate failed trades and stuck transfers using logs, traces and onchain data, and resolve the root cause
- Work with product, legal and GTM, turning business and compliance needs into technical decisions
- Write design documents for your work and review your teammates’ designs and pull requests
Benefits
- Meals: Lunch reimbursements for up to 3 days per week
- Communications expense: We cover wi-fi / cellphone expenses
- Coworking allowance: Coworking of your choice (Non-Bay Area)
- Mental wellbeing: Unlimited therapy sessions with Betterhelp
- Unlimited time-off: Take time away when you need it
- Home-office setup: Set up your dream home office with hardware of your choice
- Wellness benefits: Monthly allowance for gym memberships, massages, etc
- Health beenfits: Fully paid health plan. health allowance for international employees
- Meet IRL: Sponsored events, conferences, and team offsite anywhere in the world
- Built and maintained developer-facing APIs
- You’re an AI power user who uses it to multiply your impact as an engineer, yet you don’t let it replace your judgment
- Senior or Lead Engineer with a track record of owning complex projects end to end
- Deep onchain knowledge, especially EVM: how transactions work, including calldata, contract interfaces, gas and approvals
- Clear communicator, comfortable explaining technical tradeoffs to non-engineers
- Able to attend annual in-person team offsites around the globe
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, including at least 2 years in DeFi at a trading app, wallet, DEX aggregator, onchain data company or similar
- Aligned with our core values: do the right thing, consistently ship, and focus on long-term impact
- Strong system design experience for production-scale backend services
- Experience with cross-chain/bridging, or DEX aggregation
- Experience with other ecosystems outside of EVM such as Solana
- Experience with TypeScript and/or Rust, our main languages
