
We are a research and product development studio focusing on building applications powered by blockchain and AI technology.
We are looking for a DeFi Software Engineer with a deep understanding of Ethereum and tons of curiosity!
What are we building: We are building a peer-to-pool-based derivatives trading platform (perps and options) with novel mechanics where liquidity providers can choose whether they want to be actively or passively involved in making the market.
Responsibilities
1. Designing, building, and testing smart contracts and related infrastructure
2. Researching new DeFi protocols and their connectors and building on them
3. Building real-time monitoring tools and working with our team on latency-sensitive operations
4. Staying up to date on any developments in Defi relevant to the project
Qualifications
1. Must have extensive knowledge of Solidity, smart contract development (web3js or eth-brownie), testing and deploying a functioning smart contract on an EVM chain
2. Knowledge of Python (knowledge of Golang/Rust programming is pleasant to have).
3. Must be comfortable working with either eth-brownie
4. Comfortable working in a dynamic, research-oriented team with several ongoing concurrent projects
5. You look forward to working with an interdisciplinary team that longs to find solutions together.
6. Deep technical and practical understanding of DeFi protocols*
7. *Knowledge of DeFi isn't a must but it is a big plus! The number of years of experience does not matter as long as you have built complex projects from scratch, have a burning desire to learn more, constantly improve yourself, and solve tricky problems daily.
We're a small team so you can assure yourself that whatever you contribute - in terms of engineering, or otherwise - is always heard and discussed.
Benefits
1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
2. Equity in the protocol
3. A unique open research environment, where everybody contributes and sees the full spectrum of our work, from inception to production
4. The chance to shape our firm's legacy and exchange knowledge with the team on every part of what we do. The role is remote. Please share GitHub profiles and details of previous projects worked on (both commercial and personal)

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Alfred Capital - Alfred Capital is a next-generation on-chain proprietary quantitative trading technology provider, pioneering fully autonomous algorithmic systems that reshape trading and capital allocation in decentralized finance.
As a sister company of Deqode — a 400+ person blockchain innovation powerhouse — we operate at the cutting edge of quant research, distributed infrastructure, and high-frequency execution.
What We Build
- Alpha Discovery via On‑Chain Intelligence — Developing trading signals using blockchain data, CEX/DEX markets, and protocol mechanics.
- DeFi-Native Execution Agents — Automated systems that execute trades across decentralized platforms.
- ML-Augmented Infrastructure — Machine learning pipelines for real-time prediction, execution heuristics, and anomaly detection.
- High-Throughput Systems — Resilient, low-latency engines that operate 24/7 across EVM and non-EVM chains tuned for high-frequency trading (HFT) and real-time response
- Data-Driven MEV Analysis & Strategy — We analyze mempools, order flow, and validator behaviors to identify and capture MEV opportunities ethically—powering strategies that interact deeply with the mechanics of block production and inclusion.
Evaluation Process
- HR Discussion – A brief conversation to understand your motivation and alignment with the role.
- Initial Technical Interview – A quick round focused on fundamentals and problem-solving approach.
- Take-Home Assignment – Assesses research ability, learning agility, and structured thinking.
- Assignment Presentation – Deep-dive into your solution, design choices, and technical reasoning.
- Final Interview – A concluding round to explore your background, interests, and team fit in depth.
- Optional Interview – In specific cases, an additional round may be scheduled to clarify certain aspects or conduct further assessment before making a final decision.
Quantitative R&D Engineer
As a Quantitative R&D Engineer, you’ll explore data and design logic that becomes live trading strategies. You’ll bridge the gap between raw research and deployed, autonomous capital systems.
What You’ll Work On
- Analyze on-chain and market data to identify inefficiencies and behavioral patterns.
- Develop and prototype systematic trading strategies using statistical and ML-based techniques.
- Contribute to signal research, backtesting infrastructure, and strategy evaluation frameworks.
- Monitor and interpret DeFi protocol mechanics (AMMs, perps, lending markets) for alpha generation.
- Collaborate with engineers to turn research into production-grade, automated trading systems.
Ideal Traits
- Strong in data structures, algorithms, and core CS fundamentals.
- Proficiency in any programming language
- Understanding of probability, statistics, or ML concepts.
- Self-driven and comfortable with ambiguity, iteration, and fast learning cycles.
- Strong interest in markets, trading, or algorithmic systems.
Bonus Points For
- Experience with backtesting or feature engineering.
- Exposure to crypto primitives (AMMs, perps, mempools, etc.)
- Projects involving alpha signals, strategy testing, or DeFi bots.
- Participation in quant contests, hackathons, or open-source work.
What You’ll Gain:
- Cutting-Edge Tech Stack: You'll work on modern infrastructure and stay up to date with the latest trends in technology.
- Idea-Driven Culture: We welcome and encourage fresh ideas. Your input is valued, and you're empowered to make an impact from day one.
- Ownership & Autonomy: You’ll have end-to-end ownership of projects. We trust our team and give them the freedom to make meaningful decisions.
- Impact-Focused: Your work won’t be buried under bureaucracy. You’ll see it go live and make a difference in days, not quarters
What We Value:
- Craftsmanship over shortcuts: We appreciate engineers who take the time to understand the problem deeply and build durable solutions—not just quick fixes.
- Depth over haste: If you're the kind of person who enjoys going one level deeper to really "get" how something works, you'll thrive here.
- Invested mindset: We're looking for people who don't just punch tickets, but care about the long-term success of the systems they build.
- Curiosity with follow-through: We admire those who take the time to explore and validate new ideas, not just skim the surface.
Compensation:
- INR 6 - 12 LPA
- Performance Bonuses: Linked to contribution, delivery, and impact.
About Us
Alfred Capital - Alfred Capital is a next-generation on-chain proprietary quantitative trading technology provider, pioneering fully autonomous algorithmic systems that reshape trading and capital allocation in decentralized finance.
As a sister company of Deqode — a 400+ person blockchain innovation powerhouse — we operate at the cutting edge of quant research, distributed infrastructure, and high-frequency execution.
What We Build
- Alpha Discovery via On‑Chain Intelligence — Developing trading signals using blockchain data, CEX/DEX markets, and protocol mechanics.
- DeFi-Native Execution Agents — Automated systems that execute trades across decentralized platforms.
- ML-Augmented Infrastructure — Machine learning pipelines for real-time prediction, execution heuristics, and anomaly detection.
- High-Throughput Systems — Resilient, low-latency engines that operate 24/7 across EVM and non-EVM chains tuned for high-frequency trading (HFT) and real-time response
- Data-Driven MEV Analysis & Strategy — We analyze mempools, order flow, and validator behaviors to identify and capture MEV opportunities ethically—powering strategies that interact deeply with the mechanics of block production and inclusion.
Evaluation Process
- HR Discussion – A brief conversation to understand your motivation and alignment with the role.
- Initial Technical Interview – A quick round focused on fundamentals and problem-solving approach.
- Take-Home Assignment – Assesses research ability, learning agility, and structured thinking.
- Assignment Presentation – Deep-dive into your solution, design choices, and technical reasoning.
- Final Interview – A concluding round to explore your background, interests, and team fit in depth.
- Optional Interview – In specific cases, an additional round may be scheduled to clarify certain aspects or conduct further assessment before making a final decision.
Job Description : Blockchain Data & ML Engineer
As a Blockchain Data & ML Engineer, you’ll work on ingesting and modelling on-chain behaviour, building scalable data pipelines, and designing systems that support intelligent, autonomous market interaction.
What You’ll Work On
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines for ingesting and processing blockchain data.
- Assist in designing, training, and validating machine learning models for prediction and anomaly detection.
- Evaluate model performance, tune hyperparameters, and document experimental results.
- Develop monitoring tools to track model accuracy, data drift, and system health.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and execution teams to integrate ML components into production systems.
- Design and maintain databases and storage systems to efficiently manage large-scale datasets.
Ideal Traits
- Strong in data structures, algorithms, and core CS fundamentals.
- Proficiency in any programming language
- Familiarity with backend systems, APIs, and database design, along with a basic understanding of machine learning and blockchain fundamentals.
- Curiosity about how blockchain systems and crypto markets work under the hood.
- Self-motivated, eager to experiment and learn in a dynamic environment.
Bonus Points For
- Hands-on experience with pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, or PyTorch.
- Side projects involving automated ML workflows, ETL pipelines, or crypto protocols.
- Participation in hackathons or open-source contributions.
What You’ll Gain
- Cutting-Edge Tech Stack: You'll work on modern infrastructure and stay up to date with the latest trends in technology.
- Idea-Driven Culture: We welcome and encourage fresh ideas. Your input is valued, and you're empowered to make an impact from day one.
- Ownership & Autonomy: You’ll have end-to-end ownership of projects. We trust our team and give them the freedom to make meaningful decisions.
- Impact-Focused: Your work won’t be buried under bureaucracy. You’ll see it go live and make a difference in days, not quarters
What We Value:
- Craftsmanship over shortcuts: We appreciate engineers who take the time to understand the problem deeply and build durable solutions—not just quick fixes.
- Depth over haste: If you're the kind of person who enjoys going one level deeper to really "get" how something works, you'll thrive here.
- Invested mindset: We're looking for people who don't just punch tickets, but care about the long-term success of the systems they build.
- Curiosity with follow-through: We admire those who take the time to explore and validate new ideas, not just skim the surface.
Compensation:
- INR 6 - 12 LPA
- Performance Bonuses: Linked to contribution, delivery, and impact.
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If you're passionate about blockchain technology and want to work on cutting-edge projects, this is the role for you!.
Key Responsibilities:.
Design and develop smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps).
Work with Ethereum, Solana, or other blockchain platforms.
Write secure, optimized, and efficient code for blockchain-based applications.
Experience in MLM & Matrix Plan logic.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement blockchain solutions.
Required Qualifications:.
Experience in blockchain development.
Proficiency in Solidity, smart contracts, and blockchain platforms like Ethereum or Hyperledger.
Familiarity with cryptographic principles and consensus algorithms.
- Proficient in Solidity programming language
- Experience with wallet integrations
- Experience with ethers.js/web3.js
- Experience with Nodejs
- Experience with upgradable contracts, dynamic contracts, and factory contracts
- Design and develop smart contracts and decentralized applications on Ethereum, Polygon and Tron
- Excellent knowledge of various token standards like ERC20, ERC721 and ERC1155
- Write end-to-end unit tests for all smart contracts
Technical Experience
- Solid understanding of and experience in BlockChain Development preferred
- 2+ years of Blockchain application development experience on platforms such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, BigchainDb, Multi-Chain.
- Experience in solution building on Blockchain technology.
- Experience on development tools such as Geth, Hyperledger Fabric/Sawtooth, Composer, Solidity Remix Functional
- Basic understanding of Web applications architecture and protocols.
- Any additional expertise with Python, containerization (Docker) and additional Cloud exposure also a huge plus
- Any previous integration expertise, Strong in Agile, Banking or Financial Service development expertise, as well as software development in a large Enterprise environment, also required Security Architecture / Cryptography
- Front-end development experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ES6/TypeScript Angular, Node.js, ReactJS .
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About the role as a full stack engineer at Torum, you will be remotely working alongside our core development team from India, Turkey, Malaysia and other regions in the future. A good mindset of forward planning should be cultivated to better your performance!
You will also get involved in constant discussions with our Lead Developer and Operational team members regarding the ideas, concepts as well as feature specifications to further enhance our platform.
Key Responsibilities & Scope
- Delivering well tested, high quality software
- High scalability and flexibility solutions using micro services
- Work well in teams (bonus points if able to lead)
- Qualifications & experience
Highly Favored Experience
- Experience with Solidity
- Web3 JS experience
- Good software engineering skills, insights, and experience
- Good knowledge of cryptography
- Important: Ability to communicate (orally and verbally) well with the team in English
- Experience in building large-scale apps like Social Media, E-commerce, etc. where performance, scalability, and availability are the top priorities
Qualifications and Experience location GMT+8 or GMT+5:30
- Ability to work remotely or on-site (if Malaysia)
- More than 3 years of experience with writing Solidity smart contract (a) more than 2 years of experience with React JS and Web3 JS OR (b) more than 3 years of experience in Node JS and MongoDB
- Acting as the Senior or Lead position in the team, and built at least one or more commercialized Decentralized Applications (Dapps), such as NFT marketplace, DeFi platform, GameFi or any other relevant applications that solved the industry need
- Passion for best design, developing and coding practices
- Maximizing application performance, uptime, and scalability, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills
- Unit/integration testing experience
- Passionate and having good knowledge about Cryptocurrency / DeFi / NFT / GameFi industry is a huge bonus
- Hands-on experience on Layer 0 or 1 or 2 blockchain infrastructure (Preferably EVM-based public chain) is a huge bonus
Job descriptio
Roles and Responsibilities
- Enable secure digital transactions by creating systems to record and store blockchain data in a way that prevents changes or hacks.
- Design secure blockchain technologies, develop application features and interfaces, and maintain client and server-side applications.
- Research, design, develop, and test blockchain technologies
- Maintain and extend current client- and server-side applications responsible for integration and business logic
- Develop high-quality software for Ethereum or Hyperledger in Go, Python, Solidity, and JavaScript
- Utilizing cryptography techniques to protect against hackers and other cyber-attacks
- Developing application functionality using various coding languages
Preferred Candidate
- Deep understanding of crypto-economics
- 1-4 years of Experience in Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and development
- Proficient in RDBMS, NodeJS, C++, NoSQL, JavaScript, Java, algorithms, data structures, and distributed databases
- Familiar with cryptographic principles
- Experience of Blockchain architecture, standards/protocols, and private keys
- Experienced in developing in AWS, Azure, or any other cloud space
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With Arcana’s privacy stack, developers give control of data back to their users. They can easily integrate our SDK with their apps and use our modular feature blocks for Authentication, Identity Management, Encryption, Access Control, and Decentralized Storage. All of which are secured by and verifiable on the blockchain.
Visit http://www.arcana.network/">www.arcana.network to learn more about us, our backers, and our offerings
Role Description
Arcana is stack of services to help developers build more secure and privacy preserving apps.
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Requirements
- Experience in managing a team of engineers for at least 2+ years.
- Must have significant experience with Geth (Go Ethereum) or equivalent blockchain nodes and p2p
- Must be proficient with Golang
- Deep understanding of Blockchain, Solidity, Assembly, and the EVM
- Experience in standard software practices including clean code, unit tests and CI/CD
- Knowledge of Rust, Javascript, Typescript or Node.js is a plus
- Active member of the dev community will be a plus (e.g. experience contributing to OSS or EIPs)
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