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Quantitative Markets Engineer

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Pod Network is rebuilding the world's markets from first principles - a global, always-on venue where execution is fast, fair, and provably free of the MEV and manipulation that distort today's exchanges. We're looking for someone who thinks in markets: order books, derivatives, risk, and liquidity. You'll design how our markets actually work and build the primitives that make them tradeable.

About the Role

You'll own the trading and markets layer at the heart of Pod - the order book, perpetuals engine, risk and margin systems, leverage logic, and the financial primitives built on top. This is a markets-first engineering role: your edge is a deep understanding of market microstructure, derivatives, and market making, paired with the ability to turn that knowledge into working code. You'll set the parameters that govern live markets, build and run Pod's internal market maker, and partner with external market makers to bootstrap liquidity across new venues.

What You'll Do

  • Improve and maintain Pod's core trading modules: order book, perpetuals engine, risk engine, and leverage/margin systems.

  • Configure and tune market parameters - funding, fees, tick/lot sizes, margin tiers, liquidation thresholds - as you launch and operate new markets.

  • Design and ship novel on-chain financial primitives: vaults, proprietary/protocol AMMs, prediction markets, and other derivatives.

  • Build and operate Pod's internal market maker, and partner with external market makers to deepen liquidity.

  • Monitor live markets for health, risk, and anomalies, iterating on parameters and safeguards in response to real flow.

  • Work closely with research on incentive design, batch auction mechanics, and settlement models.

Qualifications

Must-have:

  • Deep understanding of market microstructure: order books, matching, derivatives (especially perpetuals), margin, liquidation, and funding mechanics.

  • Hands-on experience in market making, quant trading, or designing/operating exchange and trading systems.

  • Ability to translate markets knowledge into production code (e.g. Python, Rust, C++, or Go) and reason about correctness and edge cases under live trading conditions.

Bonus:

  • DeFi / on-chain trading experience: AMMs, perp DEXs, vault strategies, prediction markets.

  • Experience with low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.

  • Blockchains, consensus, or distributed systems.

What We Offer

  • Ownership of one of the most consequential surfaces at Pod, with direct impact on how global markets clear.

  • Competitive salary plus meaningful upside.

  • A high-impact role in an ambitious, fast-moving team working alongside strong researchers and top market makers.

  • Travel opportunities and thought-leadership visibility in the crypto community.

About Pod Network

Pod Network is an early-stage Web3 startup building a revolutionary new layer-1 designed to bring the world's markets on-chain with a Web2-like experience. Our chainless, blockless, leaderless protocol challenges the conventional notion of consensus to deliver fair, MEV-free execution at scale. Read more about Pod Network here.

We're backed by a16z crypto, 1kx, BBF, and Lemniscap, and we're looking for exceptional engineers to help shape the future of decentralized markets.

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What this application asks

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Name, Email, Resume, Location

  • Please share the link to your github. 
  • From the list below, pick the 2–3 areas you're most comfortable with and, for each, give a concrete example: what you built, what your specific contribution was, and what made it non-trivial. For each area you pick, be specific about your role: what did you design or decide, versus what was handed to you? (You don't need to be strong in all of these - almost nobody is.) written answer
  • Tell us about a design decision in one of these systems that you'd now make differently, and why. written answer
  • Tell us about a system you built end-to-end that you're most proud of. written answer
  • What makes you excited about pod?  written answer · optional
  • How did you hear about us? optional
  • Is there anything else you'd like us to know? optional

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