

RockawayX
RockawayX is a company operating within the Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals industry. With a team of 11-50 employees, RockawayX is currently seeking talented individuals to join its team. RockawayX has three open positions available: * **Rust Software Engineer - Solvers:** This hybrid role involves building advanced solvers for protocols like deBridge, Mayan, and Wormhole. Responsibilities include tackling complex challenges like chain reorgs, rebalancing, and threshold signing. Candidates should possess strong engineering skills, ideally in Rust, and a bonus is deep knowledge of Solana and EVM internals. The ideal candidate is a fast learner, self-driven, and focused on quality and reliability. This position offers a solid base salary and serious bonus potential. * **Quant Trading Analyst:** This remote position focuses on developing and maintaining performance benchmarks and analytics for live trading strategies. Key responsibilities include measuring transaction costs, slippage, and funding impacts. Applicants should have a degree in a relevant field and strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and version control. Problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and communication skills are also crucial. Experience with transaction-cost analytics, slippage models, execution monitoring, crypto derivatives, and funding mechanics is preferred. Benefits include private health insurance, paid time off, work from home opportunities, training & development, and a performance bonus. * **Data Engineer - Solvers:** This remote role involves analyzing solver operated protocols and designing, maintaining, and scaling data pipelines. Responsibilities include analyzing protocol data to generate insights, identifying performance gaps, and working with comprehensive datasets from 11 blockchains. The role also includes building and maintaining Grafana dashboards. Candidates should possess strong data analysis skills, excellent SQL and Python skills, and experience in writing data transformation code. A bonus is Rust experience. This position offers a solid salary and bonuses. The technology stack for these roles includes: Rust, Solana, EVM Internals, Problem Solving, Quality Assurance, Reliability, Autonomous Systems, Blockchain, Python, SQL, Version Control, Communication, Teamwork, Transaction-Cost Analytics, Slippage Models, Execution Monitoring, Crypto Derivatives, Funding Mechanics, Go, Data Pipelines, Grafana, Data Transformation, Performance Metrics, Insights Generation, Protocol Analysis, Market Share, and Profitability. RockawayX offers a hybrid work environment for the Rust Software Engineer - Solvers position, with an office located in Prague. The Quant Trading Analyst and Data Engineer - Solvers positions are fully remote. Here are some frequently asked questions about working at RockawayX and applying for these positions: 1. **What types of skills are most valued at RockawayX?** Strong engineering skills, problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and data analysis skills are highly valued. 2. **What are the remote work options available?** The Quant Trading Analyst and Data Engineer - Solvers roles are fully remote. The Rust Software Engineer role offers a hybrid work arrangement. 3. **What benefits are offered to the Quant Trading Analyst?** The Quant Trading Analyst role includes private health insurance, paid time off, work from home opportunities, training & development, and a performance bonus. 4. **What kind of experience is beneficial for the Quant Trading Analyst position?** Experience coding transaction-cost analytics, slippage models, and execution monitoring for trading, and practical knowledge of crypto derivatives markets, funding mechanics, and exchange microstructure are beneficial. 5. **What are the bonus structures like at RockawayX?** Both the Rust Software Engineer and the Data Engineer roles offer bonus opportunities. The Quant Trading Analyst position also offers a performance bonus. 6. **What tools are used for data management and analysis for the Data Engineer - Solvers role?** The Data Engineer will work with SQL, Python, Rust, Go, data pipelines, and Grafana. 7. **What is the ideal profile of a candidate for the Rust Software Engineer - Solvers role?** A smart, fast learner, who is self-driven, and focused on quality and reliability. Experience with ex-founding is ideal.
About the Company
RockawayX is a blockchain-focused venture capital fund, with long-term focus on value creation. We invest globally into leading crypto funds, companies and protocols. After investment, we help by running the network of validators, auditing smart contracts, providing liquidity, engineering, hiring dev teams and building communities.
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3Develop and maintain performance benchmarks and analytics for live trading strategiesMeasure transaction costs, slippage, and funding impacts to ensure executions align with research assumptionsPartne...
About the RoleData analysis of solver operated protocolsAnalyze protocol data to generate insights that drive increased market share and profitability.Identify performance gaps and areas where competi...
Build advanced solvers for protocols like deBridge, Mayan, and WormholeCrack tough problems (chain reorgs, rebalancing, threshold signing, etc.)Engineer systems that move millions—fast, safe, fully au...
