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Python Engineer
Focus: Services for market making cross-venue arbitrage and real-time data pipelines.
Merge Tech an independent trading house in the world of digital assets.
Merge Tech is an independent trading house that creates high-tech strategies in the areas of HFT MEV and DeFi on Solana and other L1.Our team consists of the founders of one of the largest Ethereum mining pools (3% of all blocks before The Merge).We are currently focused on developing algorithms for digital markets and building competitive real-time strategies.
Working at Merge Tech means:
- A small high-tech team with direct influence on the product.
- No bureaucracy or investors: the team manages strategies independently.
- Access to unique data and technologies in the field of HFT/MEV.
What youll do
Build robust Python services for execution quoting hedging and risk.
Design backtests/simulators and run live experiments with strong observability.
Research and Develop trading strategies.
Ship production code with tight SLAs low latency and clear failure modes.
Own CI/CD containerization and runtime reliability.
Must-have
2 years writing production Python.
Strong grasp of market microstructure: AMMs Order Book slippage liquidity and routing.
Hands-on with DEX/CEX APIs and real-time market data ingestion.
Practical EVM or Solana experience: tx lifecycle RPC nuances simulation priority fees.
Data work: NumPy/Pandas/Polars Parquet/Arrow; Postgres/Timescale.
Testing & quality: pytest property tests type hints (mypy/pyright) structured logging feature flags.
Infra basics: Docker Linux GitHub Actions (or similar) metrics with Prometheus/Grafana and error tracking (Sentry).
Nice-to-have
Perp DEX experience (e.g. Hyperliquid) and DEX aggregators/routing.
On-chain MEV/arb concepts (bundles/private relays on EVM; compute budget/priority fees on Solana).
Low-latency profiling/tuning (uvloop asyncio queues zero-copy GC tuning).
Message buses (Kafka/NATS) columnar storage and time-series schema design.
Rust/Go for hot paths; FastAPI for control planes and dashboards.
We offer
- Participation in the creation of cutting-edge strategies and algorithms in the digital asset market.
- Work in an international high-class team.
- Flexible remote format.
- Access to unique data and infrastructure.
Employment Type
Full Time
