The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and tech stack, but lacks specific compensation details.
Job description
VDEX is a decentralized perpetual exchange built on a Virtual Rollups (zero knowledge state channels) with instant finality and ZeroGas fees.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services in Go and TypeScript.
- Implement low‑latency, event‑driven systems for real‑time trading workflows.
- Own core financial protocol logic: margining, liquidation, funding, pricing, and risk controls.
- Integrate off‑chain backend systems with on‑chain components where needed.
- Improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling for production services.
- Lead system design discussions and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years building scalable distributed systems.
- Strong Go skills; experience with TypeScript a plus.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, data consistency, and microservices.
- Experience with SQL (Postgres), REST APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
- Familiarity with Kafka (or similar), Redis, and cache design patterns.
- Knowledge of cryptographic principles and key management.
- Comfortable with Docker, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines.
- CEX/DEX experience.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Understand our whitepaper.
- Nice to Have: DeFi and blockchain fundamentals (EVM, tokens, yields).
- Experience with smart contracts (Solidity).
- Familiarity with ethers.js or go‑ethereum.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud infrastructure.
- Understanding of trading concepts like order books, perpetuals, and risk.
Conditions
- Competitive base salary.
- Generous token vesting.
- Join a rapidly growing exchange at the forefront of zero knowledge innovation.
About VDEX
VDEX appears to refer to multiple unrelated companies and products, including a Vietnamese manufacturer/exporter of bamboo and wooden products, a Web3/DeFi company, and a diabetes care provider. Because the search results point to different entities with the same name, I cannot confidently identify a single company profile without more context.
Blockchain Services· 11-50 employees· New York City, United States· Founded 2021· https://virtual.tech