GRVT TECHNOLOGIES

Principal Software Engineer — Trade & Blockchain

GRVT TECHNOLOGIES

4 days ago

## **What You’ll Do** * Write and own substantial amounts of production code in the most complex, high-risk, and business-critical areas of the platform. * Take end-to-end ownership of system behavior in production, especially under failure, stress, or adversarial conditions. * Operate confidently in ambiguous problem spaces, defining constraints, risks, and execution paths when clarity does not yet exist. * Anticipate and neutralize systemic technical, operational, and product risks through careful design, invariants, and operational discipline. * Simplify complex systems by eliminating accidental complexity, unsafe patterns, and brittle abstractions. * Set technical direction primarily through reference implementations, durable abstractions, and sustained ownership of core systems. * Act as one of the strongest technical coaches on the team through high-signal code reviews, design discussions, and example. * Influence product and technical decisions by deeply understanding system behavior, user incentives, and long-term trade-offs. * Participate actively in incident response, and ensure durable improvements through root-cause analysis and follow-through. * Raise the bar for correctness, reliability, and operability by making the right designs and behaviors the default for others. ## **What We’re Looking For** We’re looking for exceptional individual contributors who consistently demonstrate strong performance across our core competencies, and who provide outsized leverage through a small number of exceptional strengths. In particular, you should have: * A track record of owning and evolving complex, production-critical systems. * Exceptional engineering judgment in ambiguous, high-risk, or adversarial environments. * Deep comfort reasoning about failure modes, edge cases, and second- or third-order effects. * Strong operational ownership, including designing for observability, safe failure, and recoverability. * The ability to simplify complex systems without losing essential correctness or safety. * A demonstrated ability to influence others through code quality, design clarity, and technical credibility. * Clear, precise communication, especially when articulating risks, trade-offs, and system behavior. **Nice to Have** * Deep domain expertise in trading systems, exchange mechanics, or financial infrastructure. * Expertise in one or more high-leverage areas such as: * Reliability and operational excellence * Adversarial or incentive-aware system design * Architectural simplification and technical leverage * Deterministic, performance-sensitive, or event-driven systems * Experience operating systems under significant load, stress, or real-world failure scenarios. ## **This Role Is Not a Fit If** * You prefer narrowly scoped work with clearly defined requirements. * You are uncomfortable owning ambiguous, high-risk problems end-to-end. * You avoid deep production ownership or incident responsibility. * You prefer influencing through authority or process rather than through technical leadership. * You are not interested in remaining deeply hands-on as an individual contributor. ## **How Success Is Measured** Success in this role is measured by: * The long-term correctness, stability, and clarity of the systems you anchor. * Reduction of systemic risk and classes of failure over time. * How much easier it becomes for others to do the right thing because of your work. * The degree to which your technical judgment is trusted on the hardest problems. ## Final Note Principal Engineers here are **not managers and not detached architects**. They are exceptional ICs who take responsibility for the hardest problems and make the organization meaningfully stronger by doing the work that only they can do. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

Staff Software Engineer — Trade & Blockchain

GRVT TECHNOLOGIES

4 days ago

## **What You’ll Do** * Lead the design and delivery of complex systems and multi-service projects in our trading platform. * Take system-level ownership of **correctness, reliability, and operability** in production. * Anticipate and mitigate architectural, operational, and product risks before they result in incidents or user impact. * Act as a technical co-lead with Product, Risk, Operations, and other stakeholders to drive clarity, alignment, and execution. * Provide high-quality code reviews that surface risks, clarify assumptions, and raise engineering standards. * Coach and mentor engineers through design discussions, feedback, and day-to-day collaboration. * Drive technical leverage by introducing abstractions, patterns, or platforms that structurally improve correctness, reliability, and long-term velocity. * Participate actively in incident response and ensure durable improvements through root-cause analysis and follow-up work. * Communicate complex technical decisions clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. ## **What We’re Looking For** We’re looking for engineers who consistently demonstrate strong performance across our core competencies, and who are ready to operate with **broader scope and higher leverage**. In particular, you should have: * Proven ability to reason about and evolve complex, stateful systems safely. * Strong engineering judgment and a track record of making thoughtful trade-offs in ambiguous situations. * Deep ownership of production systems, including incident response and post-incident improvement. * A clear bias toward correctness, reliability, and defensive system design. * The ability to raise the quality and effectiveness of others through coaching, reviews, and example. * Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to push back thoughtfully and align stakeholders around shared outcomes. * Clear, precise communication, especially when discussing risks, trade-offs, and complex system behavior. **Nice to Have** * Deep experience with trading systems, exchanges, or other financial infrastructure. * Experience designing systems with adversarial users or strong economic incentives. * Expertise in Go (Golang), distributed systems, performance engineering, or event-driven architectures. * Prior experience driving architectural or platform-level improvements in a production environment. ## **This Role Is Not a Fit If** * You prefer focusing primarily on individually scoped tasks or features. * You are uncomfortable owning system-level outcomes or production behavior. * You avoid cross-functional responsibility or difficult alignment conversations. * You optimize for short-term delivery over long-term correctness, reliability, and maintainability. * You are not interested in mentoring, coaching, or raising the technical bar for others. We care deeply about judgment, ownership, and impact, especially in complex and high-stakes systems. Strong candidates for this role demonstrate not only technical depth, but the ability to make the team and the system meaningfully better over time. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.