\nGauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. We build institutional-grade vaults for decentralized finance, delivering risk-adjusted onchain yields for capital at scale. Designed by the most vigilant, quantitative minds in crypto and informed by years of research. As of April 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL.\n\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.\n\n\nGauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st-century financial innovation.\n\n\nTeam Overview\n\n\nThe Data Team is responsible for developing and maintaining robust data pipelines that ensure the accuracy and availability of data across the organization. They work closely with other teams to provide insights and analytics that drive business strategies and optimize performance. The Data Team enhances the company's data-driven decision-making capabilities by leveraging advanced data processing frameworks and tools.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Design, implement, and maintain scalable data processing solutions for Gauntlet’s data platforms, focusing on high availability and performance.\n* Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to develop and enhance data ingestion and processing systems tailored to the needs of the data team.\n* Participate in code and design reviews specific to data projects, offering constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practices in data software development.\n* Stay informed about emerging data technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and improve data system architecture.\n* Develop and maintain technical documentation to support data system operations and facilitate knowledge sharing within the data team.\n* Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve data-related software issues, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the data platform's services.\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* 3+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on backend data systems.\n* Proficient in at least one programming language commonly used for data processing and streaming applications, such as Python or Rust, within a data team context\n* Experience with data ingestion and processing frameworks, such as Kafka, tailored to the needs of a data team\n* Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on building scalable and efficient data systems\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n* Strong understanding of blockchain technology and DeFi protocols, with a keen interest in expanding knowledge in these areas, especially regarding data systems.\n* Experience in building real-time applications or systems.\n* Knowledge of Rust \n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n* Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!\n* Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation\n* Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk\n* 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees\n* Laptop provided\n* $1,500 WFH stipend upon joining\n* $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses\n* Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data\n* Unlimited vacation policy\n* 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks\n* Fertility benefits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.\n\n\nThe national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  \n\n\n#LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Crypto, Python, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote

\nGauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2025, Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $35 billion in customer TVL.\n\n\nGauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.\n\n\nGauntlet’s mission is to drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st-century financial innovation.\n\n\nWe are looking for engineers for a few projects! See below:\n\n\nPivot/Courier Services\n\n\nWe're developing an algorithmic trading platform to optimize strategies Gauntlet oversees on-chain to capture opportunities across DeFi. We're looking for a product-focused systems generalist to work with users to define requirements and build the system's required components!\n\n\nData & Models\n\n\nWe develop & own the services that power Gauntlet's platform, including all our model capture, infrastructure, deployments & tools to support & scale our systems!\n\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable systems for data from DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, and various other data sources\n* Contribute to making our platform world-class\n* Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their system requirements and provide the necessary support to help their productivity.\n* Implement quality control measures to ensure system integrity and quality\n* Actively participate in code and design reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and maintaining high coding standards\n* Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure the continuous improvement of the platform\n* Contribute to the creation of technical documentation and user guides\n* Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software defects, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* At least 4 years of professional development experience. More is better but we're flexible\n* Experience with building backend systems.\n* Experience developing production-quality software in high-performance languages. We currently use Python and Typescript but are open to exceptional language agnostic candidates.\n* Experience with dynamic isolated environments  and operational alerting\n* Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and related technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.\n* Ability to quickly internalize abstract concepts in new domains, coupled with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.\n* Ability to work independently and within a team, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines.\n* Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment\n* Interests or passion for DeFi and the broader crypto ecosystem, with a willingness to immerse oneself in the space.\n* Bonus Points\n* Experience working in the crypto industry is a plus but is not required.\n* Background in working with complex data sets in data-rich environments\n* Experience with languages and tooling related to complex streaming problems\n* Familiarity with cloud solutions like Google Cloud Platform or AWS\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n* Experience working in the crypto industry is a plus but is not required.\n* Background in working with complex data sets in data-rich environments\n* Experience with languages and tooling related to complex streaming problems\n* Familiarity with cloud solutions like Google Cloud Platform or AWS\n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n* Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!\n* Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation\n* Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk\n* 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees\n* Laptop provided\n* $1,600 WFH stipend upon joining\n* $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses\n* Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data\n* Unlimited vacation policy\n* 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks\n* Fertility benefits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.\n\n\nThe national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  \n\n\n#LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Cloud, Typescript, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNew York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote

\nAbout Baubap\nWe are a fast-growing, Mexican fintech startup with the mission to become the bridge to people’s financial freedom through technology.\nWe are providing microloans to people in financial need through a fast and efficient process, always treating them with the respect and dignity they deserve.\nOur long-term vision is be the most inclusive digital bank in LATAM with more than 2.5 million clients.\n\n\n*We require that the candidate is fluent in Spanish and currently resides in the LATAM region, as it's important be willing to work under the Mexican Central Time Zone.\n\n About you\n\n🚀 \n\nAre you ready to shape the future of personal micro loans? As a Backend Engineer focused on Financial Core Systems, you'll be at the heart of ensuring our backend's performance, stability, and reliability. Your work will directly streamline our operations and accelerate product development.\n\nYou’ll collaborate with a dynamic and passionate team dedicated to problem-solving and continuous improvement. Your contributions will be instrumental in achieving our product goals, to ensure our customers experience the best feeling by using our products.\n\nYou’ll take charge of important projects focused on improving functionality, helping us achieve our key objectives and results (OKRs). Your work will enhance user experiences and streamline processes through clear communication and quick updates. Join us and make a real impact in the micro-loan industry!\n\n\nAs Backend Engineer, these are the challenges that you will help us for solving\n\n\n* Work with the team to design and implement backend system architecture, focusing on scalability, maintainability, and efficiency.\n\n* Improve backend performance through code optimization and architectural enhancements.\n\n* Integrate external Financial and Compliance systems and services, including third-party products in a variety of APIs implementations.\n\n* Develop and maintain reliable and efficient APIs for server-to-client, server-to-server and event-driven communication.\n\n* Implement security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber threats.\n\n* Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to high-volume transactions in the product's backend.\n\n\n\n\n Day to day\n\n\n* Collaborate to design and implement scalable, maintainable, and efficient backend system architectures using micro-services.\n\n* Develop and maintain robust and efficient APIs for server-to-client, server-to-server and event-driven communication, ensuring performance under high traffic.\n\n* Optimize backend components to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. Conduct regular performance tuning and bug fixing.\n\n* Implement security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber threats.\n\n* Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality.\n\n* Ensure seamless communication and data exchange between different components.\n\n* Participate in regular team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and collaborative planning.\n\n* Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, to continuously improve development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance productivity and product quality.\n\n\n\n\nRequirements \n\n\n* 5+ years of experience in backend development in a fast growing product.\n\n* Hands-on experience designing and building micro services architectures.\n\n* Proven ability to develop and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.\n\n* Demonstrated skills in optimizing system performance, scalability, and reliability.\n\n* Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.\n\n* Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following industry standards and best practices.\n\n* Experience with monitoring, maintaining, and supporting backend systems in a production environment.\n\n* Ability to create and maintain detailed technical documentation for system architecture, design, and processes.\n\n* Experience with writing and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure system reliability.\n\n* Experience with designing and maintaining scalable data models in relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL which the capability to ensure data integrity and precision.\n\n*  \n\n\n\n\n🚀 Nice to have\n\n\n* Experience with tech leading small groups of at most 6 people, giving them technical direction and support.\n\n* Expertise in putting together well designed solutions to support constant-growing financial platforms by implementing cutting-edge technology and patterns.\n\n* In-depth knowledge and experience working in the fintech industry.\n\n* Familiarity with STP (Sistema de Transferencias y Pagos) and its operations.\n\n* Understanding and experience with SPEI (Sistema de Pagos Electrónicos Interbancarios) and its implementation.\n\n* Expertise in disbursement processes, payment gateways, and financial transaction handling.\n\n* Knowledge of various financial products, particularly personal micro loans and their lifecycle.\n\n* Understanding of regulatory compliance requirements in the Mexican fintech sector.\n\n* Knowledge of risk assessment and management in financial services.\n\n* Experience applying machine learning techniques to financial data for fraud detection, credit scoring, etc.\n\n* Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized applications.\n\n* Skills in data analysis and using tools like SQL, Python (Pandas), or R to extract insights from financial data.\n\n*  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is our way of working?\n\n\n* We aim to be as product centric as possible, which means we always prioritise:\n\n* Listening to our customers (whether internal or external), mainly qualitatively and secondary quantitatively\n\n* Focusing on real problems our clients face\n\n* Strong focus on customer experience\n\n* Assuring that every product adds value to both, our business and our customers\n\n* Falling in love with the problem instead of the solution\n\n* Quick validation and learning\n\n* Strong collaboration within your team and other teams\n\n* Small, progressive, incremental delivery, innovation comes from iterations not from scratch.\n\n\n\n\n\n What we offer\n\n\n\n* Being part of a multinational, highly driven team of professionals\n\n* Flexible and remote working environment\n\n* High level of ownership and independence\n\n* 20 vacation days / year + 75% holiday bonus\n\n* 1 month (proportional) of Christmas bonus\n\n* Vales de despensa of 3,257 MXN / month\n\n* Health & Life insurance\n\n* Home office set-up budget\n\n* Unlimited budget for Kindle books\n\n* 2 psychological sessions/month with Terapify\n\n* Baubap Free Loan\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, GraphQL, Python, Docker, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nMexico City, Mexico City, Mexico