Monaco Trading - Founding Engineer (DeFi)

About Monaco

Sub-millisecond execution. Institutional depth. Zero compromise. Built by Wall Street veterans and crypto-native builders, Monaco powers spot, perps, and prediction markets on a unified liquidity engine—purpose-built for performance and spanning across asset classes. Different interfaces for different traders, all connected to the same rich liquidity. This isn't just another exchange; it's a next-generation global trading network.

The Role

We are looking for an individual to join as a Founding Engineer, with experience in developing trading platforms/exchanges, who will help architect, build and maintain our systems. You will be trusted with making important design decisions with substantial autonomy, working directly with the founders to deliver a best-in-class trading experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Proposing and implementing key design choices, including but not limited to:

• Enhancing matching + risk engines for existing product suite

• Internal accounting and risk management

• Optimistic proof generation for batch settlement of trades

• New features and products to complement the suite

• Rigorously reviewing and improving code that has been produced and will be produced

Who you are:

• 6+ years experience in a highly technical trading infrastructure / engineering role (preference for someone who’s actually built a central exchange before)

• Experienced in Rust, bonus if experienced in Typescript

• Deep understanding of low-level architecture (understanding of hardware optimization would be a bonus)

• Strong expertise in low latency, high throughput distributed systems

• You value strong opinions loosely held

Compensation

We are committed to hiring elite talent, and that is reflected in our market-leading salary and token compensation