Staff Software Engineer - Trade & Blockchain

Staff Software Engineer - Trade & Blockchain at Grvt

As a Staff Software Engineer - Trade & Blockchain at Grvt, you will play a pivotal role in leading the design and delivery of complex, multi-service systems within our trading platform. This position demands a high degree of ownership, responsibility, and the ability to influence technical direction and raise engineering standards across the team.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and delivery of complex systems and multi-service projects in our trading platform.
• Take system-level ownership of correctness, reliability, and operability in production.
• Anticipate and mitigate architectural, operational, and product risks before they result in incidents or user impact.
• Act as a technical co-lead with Product, Risk, Operations, and other stakeholders to drive clarity, alignment, and execution.
• Provide high-quality code reviews that surface risks, clarify assumptions, and raise engineering standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers through design discussions, feedback, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Drive technical leverage by introducing abstractions, patterns, or platforms that structurally improve correctness, reliability, and long-term velocity.
• Participate actively in incident response and ensure durable improvements through root-cause analysis and follow-up work.
• Communicate complex technical decisions clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking engineers who consistently demonstrate strong performance across our core competencies, ready to operate with broader scope and higher leverage. Candidates should exhibit:

• Proven ability to reason about and evolve complex, stateful systems safely.
• Strong engineering judgment and a track record of making thoughtful trade-offs in ambiguous situations.
• Deep ownership of production systems, including incident response and post-incident improvement.
• A clear bias toward correctness, reliability, and defensive system design.
• The ability to raise the quality and effectiveness of others through coaching, reviews, and example.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to push back thoughtfully and align stakeholders around shared outcomes.
• Clear, precise communication, especially when discussing risks, trade-offs, and complex system behavior.

Nice to Have

• Deep experience with trading systems, exchanges, or other financial infrastructure.
• Experience designing systems with adversarial users or strong economic incentives.
• Expertise in Go (Golang), distributed systems, performance engineering, or event-driven architectures.
• Prior experience driving architectural or platform-level improvements in a production environment.

This Role Is Not a Fit If

• You prefer focusing primarily on individually scoped tasks or features.
• You are uncomfortable owning system-level outcomes or production behavior.
• You avoid cross-functional responsibility or difficult alignment conversations.
• You optimize for short-term delivery over long-term correctness, reliability, and maintainability.
• You are not interested in mentoring, coaching, or raising the technical bar for others.

We care deeply about judgment, ownership, and impact, especially in complex and high-stakes systems. Strong candidates for this role demonstrate not only technical depth, but the ability to make the team and the system meaningfully better over time.

Key skills/competency

• System Design
• Distributed Systems
• Go (Golang)
• Reliability Engineering
• Production Ownership
• Incident Response
• Technical Leadership
• Mentorship
• Blockchain Technology
• Trading Systems