The Role:

Our market-neutral fund is expanding our technical team to build and maintain the systems that power automated strategies, security monitoring, and portfolio intelligence across centralized and decentralized finance. We operate at the intersection of yield and quantitative on-chain strategies. Strong technical infrastructure and smart automation are the keys to scaling performance and risk control.

You'll join a small, high-impact team of engineers and strategists. Your work will directly shape how we execute credit and liquidity strategies on-chain, monitor security and operational risks, and integrate data pipelines across centralized and decentralized venues.

This role is ideal for a technically strong, crypto-native engineer who thrives in fast-paced, research-driven environments and wants to work at the frontier of blockchain credit markets.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development

  • Design, implement, and maintain automated strategies for credit, liquidity, and yield generation across CeFi and DeFi venues
  • Build and manage execution systems that interface with centralized exchanges, on-chain protocols, and yield platforms
  • Contribute to the development of monitoring, alerting, and data visualization tools to ensure robustness and performance of strategies

Infrastructure & Monitoring

  • Develop and maintain secure data pipelines and backend infrastructure for strategy execution and monitoring
  • Set up and manage observability tools (Grafana, PagerDuty, custom dashboards) for both trading systems and on-chain operations
  • Work with the research team to design APIs and data models for tracking portfolio risk, market exposure, and liquidity metrics

Security & Risk Systems

  • Build systems for real-time security monitoring of wallets, smart contracts, and protocol dependencies
  • Collaborate with the risk team to automate alerting and risk mitigation processes
  • Contribute to internal tooling for auditing and compliance tracking of DeFi credit positions

Collaboration & Research

  • Work closely with investment and research teams to prototype and deploy new strategies
  • Evaluate and integrate new DeFi protocols and CeFi platforms with an emphasis on security and reliability
  • Support data analysis, backtesting, and research efforts by building efficient Python-based analytics pipelines

Your skillset

  • Strong programming background in Python (required); Rust experience is a plus
  • Deep understanding of blockchain infrastructure, DeFi protocols, and smart contract mechanics
  • Experience with databases (SQL, Postgres, or equivalent) and designing scalable data architectures
  • Proficiency with monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, PagerDuty, Prometheus, etc.)
  • Familiarity with building or maintaining on-chain trading, lending, or yield strategies
  • Strong grasp of systems design, API integrations, and security principles in blockchain contexts
  • Analytical mindset with ability to interpret complex on-chain and off-chain datasets
  • Self-starter attitude and comfort working in a small, high-performance team

Bonus Points

  • Experience contributing to or auditing smart contracts (Solidity, Move, or Rust-based)
  • Exposure to credit markets, structured finance, or yield-bearing protocols
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and containerized deployments

Please email us your CV to hr@rockawayx.com.

Apply for this role

Please email your covering letter and CV to HR@rockawayx.com