[Hiring] Lead Quant Engineer @Toxic Flow Labs

Role Description

At Toxic Flow Labs, we are building the foundation for global markets with a focus on speed, composability, and security. Our flagship product, Kuru Exchange, is a CLOB DEX built natively on Monad, bringing the speed and capital efficiency of centralized exchanges on-chain. Our key differentiation is an EVM-native, fully on-chain order book that unlocks a new standard for trading infrastructure in crypto.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize the core trading systems powering the exchange, including execution, market making, and pricing infrastructure.
• Prototype and implement quantitative models and trading strategies to improve liquidity, execution quality, and market efficiency.
• Build highly performant, low-latency systems with a focus on correctness, scalability, and reliability.
• Work closely with protocol, backend, and infrastructure engineers to design and implement new exchange features and trading primitives.
• Analyze market microstructure, trading behavior, and production data to identify opportunities for improving execution, incentives, and system performance.
• Drive the technical direction and architecture of the trading stack, balancing performance, maintainability, and operational simplicity.
• Lead technical discussions, and foster a culture of ownership, high engineering standards, and continuous learning.
• Stay abreast of advances in quantitative finance, decentralized finance, and distributed systems, evaluating and integrating new ideas where appropriate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing and building high-performance, low-latency trading systems, such as execution engines, order management systems, market making infrastructure, matching engines.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and operating complex production trading systems, with a strong understanding of concurrency, networking, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
• Ability to reason about systems across multiple levels of abstraction to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks.
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and systems design, with a focus on correctness, scalability, and latency-critical software.
• A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas and a team-first attitude.
• Passion for decentralized finance, market microstructure, and building the next generation of financial infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience building infrastructure for crypto markets, including centralized or decentralized exchanges, market making systems, MEV, or execution platforms.
• Hands-on experience with blockchain systems, preferably EVM-based ecosystems.
• Experience leading small engineering teams.

Benefits

• Challenging problems: Work on difficult, novel problems at the intersection of exchange design, low-latency systems, smart contracts, and crypto market structure.
• Build from first principles: Help define how EVM-native, fully on-chain order books are built.
• Huge opportunity: Monad’s Parallel EVM enables high-performance applications that bring a CEX-like trading experience on a decentralized blockchain.
• High ownership, exceptional team: Your work will have a direct and visible impact on the product, architecture, and company.
• Culture and compensation: Competitive salary and equity package in a lean, collaborative team working toward ambitious goals.