Senior Engineering Lead
Content + Source + Freshness • 17 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Highly valued role due to leadership opportunities in the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape, with significant impact on engineering practices.
- Lead engineering efforts in innovative market-making.
- Remote flexibility with competitive compensation.
- Join an experienced team focused on DeFi advances.
Pros
- Influential role in developing market-making infrastructure.
- Mentorship opportunities within a skilled engineering team.
- Work in an innovative environment pushing DeFi boundaries.
Cons
- High-level expectations for leadership experience.
- Fast-paced decision-making may create pressure.
- Remote work may limit traditional collaboration and learning.
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Fully remote
Good fit
- Senior engineers with leadership experience in DeFi.
- Professionals looking to influence technical direction.
- Individuals passionate about blockchain technologies.
Not recommended for
- Candidates early in their engineering careers.
- Those averse to working in rapidly changing environments.
- Professionals seeking predictable corporate roles.
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Arrakis aims to disrupt the current market-making industry by providing the infrastructure to enable every project in the world that wants to launch a token to benefit from non-custodial, trustless, and automated on-chain market-making strategies. We believe in a world where every organisation, from a small startup to a large enterprise, will be tokenized and traded on-chain. For this world, Arrakis is building the tools to create the necessary liquidity to enable this token economy to rival and out-compete the traditional financial industry.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Lead with deep DeFi experience to take ownership of our engineering roadmap and lead the development of our market-making infrastructure. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, you’ll architect, build, and ship complex systems yourself while mentoring and managing a growing team of engineers.
You should have a strong background in backend systems, infrastructure, and security, with deep understanding of DeFi protocols and smart contract architectures. You will guide the team on design, scalability, and security best practices while remaining directly involved in the codebase and core technical problem-solving.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven leadership experience managing or mentoring engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of DeFi protocols, liquidity provision, AMMs, and market microstructure.
- Strong background in backend systems, infrastructure, and security.
- Proficiency in Rust and Solidity, with experience developing and deploying smart contracts.
- Strong understanding of private-key management, wallet infrastructure, and security best practices.
- Experience working with SQL databases, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud providers (GCP, AWS).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong curiosity about DeFi and willingness to stay on the frontier of on-chain innovation.
- Join a fully remote team with headquarters based in Zug, Switzerland.
- Supported by world-class investors including Uniswap Labs, Robot Ventures, Accel, and LongHash Ventures.
- Competitive salary + performance-based compensation.
- Share package.
- Opportunity to work remotely or in person in Switzerland with the founders.
- Travel globally to attend key DeFi events and Arrakis offsites.
