Senior Software Engineer - Arbitrage Trading Bot

At Gravity Team, a quantitative proprietary trading firm, we are on a mission to balance the supply and demand across crypto markets worldwide.

Join our community of innovators, problem solvers, and owners who apply scientific discovery techniques to make crypto markets a better place for everyone.

You are

• A problem solver. Each day presents numerous challenges with sub-optimal choices, and you should excel at selecting the best option given optimization criteria.
• Focused on results. The drive to get things done distinguishes success from the rest.
• A team player. We thrive together as a team! You must listen well and present your ideas in an environment where the best ideas win.

You'll be working on

Arbitrage trading bot (aka Unified) – Gravity Team’s high-frequency arbitrage trading system that powers the majority of our trading volumes. Unified runs 24/7 across 30+ global crypto exchanges, executing millions of trades monthly. It’s the brain of our market making strategy – constantly deciding what, where, and how much to trade. You’ll join a team of experienced engineers and quant-minded traders who are obsessed with performance, uptime, and scaling arbitrage across fragmented crypto markets globally.

What you will do

• Own core strategy code – work directly on the main arbitrage strategy components in Rust.
• Exchange integrations – lead complex API integrations and optimize performance across venues.
• Find clever workarounds - identify and exploit non-obvious behaviors in exchanges and come up with smart, unconventional fixes that give us a competitive edge.
• OTC systems & matching engines – support development of internal OTC infrastructure, matching logic, and colocation efforts.
• Strategy rollout – integrate and deploy strategy updates end-to-end, including parameter tuning and risk checks.
• System maintenance – improve reliability, latency, and scalability of existing Unified components.
• Cross-team collaboration – work closely with Infrastructure, Operations, and other teams to scale trading systems.
• Incident Response - Participate in our critical systems’ support duties.

What we expect

• 5+ years of experience building performance-critical backend systems (ideally trading, financial applications, hedge funds, FX, HFT, or exchange infrastructure)
• Strong hands-on skills of multiple backend programming languages & frameworks. Experience with Rust or other compiled programming languages is a plus.
• Curiosity to understand trading systems – eagerness to dive into market microstructure, matching engines, and order routing to build better execution logic.
• Data-driven mindset – ability to analyze large datasets, pull from databases, and use data to drive engineering decisions.
• Comfort with scale and critical systems – you’ve worked on systems in a production environment where reliability and speed directly impact revenue.

Our promise to you

We offer you a driver's seat in world's crypto-sphere and hands-on insight into one of the most exciting and lucrative industries today. Our work contributes to transforming the current financial industry and democratizing access to digital goods across the world.

Conditions

• Open idea meritocracy and close to zero bureaucracy.
• Work together with a highly talented team.
• Possibility to participate in world crypto events, with a very real and tangible impact on many crypto markets across the world.
• Fast-moving, challenging, and unique business problems.
• Very competitive salary up to 10,000 EUR gross with a steep development curve.
• Profit shares.
• Flexible working hours, casual work attire, and a startup atmosphere.
• Learning & Development budget of 3000 EUR a year
• A-class work environment at Zunda Towers offices with 360° view over Riga, free food & snacks, Chef's lunches, state-of-art office space design, weekly yoga & physiotherapy sessions, etc.
• Regular team events in Latvia and also abroad.
• Benefits that you can combine yourself – free food, Bolt taxi, Sports, Spa & Wellness, etc.