Job Description

About Wintermute

At Wintermute our mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products.

We do this by providing liquidity algorithmically across most trading venues in crypto, supporting all major centralized and decentralized trading venues, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and chains. Wintermute is also offering best-in-class OTC products to crypto native as well as traditional financial institutions.

Wintermute is actively participating in the building and development of the blockchain ecosystem through investments from Wintermute Ventures, partnerships and co-development with upcoming protocols and incubation of own projects. We act as official market makers for a large number of the world’s highest profile blockchain projects.

Wintermute is a hyper-growth highly profitable business with a very ambitious vision and roadmap. We manage billions of dollars in assets and trade more than $5B/day. We are backed by Lightspeed, Pantera Capital, Sino Global Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Avon Ventures by Fidelity Investments, DeFi Alliance and other top tier investors. We are run as a technology company, not a financial service provider, and we build our culture around core values of ambition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, transparency and meritocracy.


Working at Wintermute

We are happy to offer a new opportunity to join our team as a DevOps engineer / counterparty integration specialist. This role combines technical aspects of automating and supporting large cross region trading platform providing 24/7 liquidity to external counterparties, with helping clients with technical queries, troubleshooting, checking log files, configuring connectivity. Like other jobs at Wintermute, this role is both very hands-on and provides the opportunity to learn more about market making, liquidity provision and improve python and other automation skills, while working close with traders and developers. You will report to CTO and be working closely with the development, trading, operations and business development teams.

What you will work on

• Be the key client facing technical expert on Wintermute trading API and platforms, support integrations and help prioritise capabilities roadmap
• Provide end-to-end integration experience for existing and new counterparties
• Maintain ongoing communication with technical, middle office and business teams of our counterparties and OEMS partners
• Monitor counterparty trading activity / connectivity and proactively identify and resolve any issues
• Automate internal processes like onboarding, reporting, support tools, etc.
• Develop efficient digital communication channels with counterparties and partners to provide updates on product

Hard Skills requirements

• Relevant experience working in a financial services company, trading software provider or technical consultancy
• Ability to produce and communicate technical documentation
• Understanding of basics of networking and how to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Basic scripting and Python experience
• Strong communication skills – with technical and business audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

Nice to have skills

• Experience with FIX protocol and various REST APIs is desired, but can be learned while working.
• Understanding of basic AWS configuration concepts.
• You are determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard and learn on the way
• You like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset versus 9-to-5 mentality
• You are prepared to work non-standard working hours (since we are a high-growth startup operating in the 24/7 crypto world)
• You like working in the team environment (not fully remote)

Wintermute Offer

• A unique opportunity to work on very interesting projects, get the level of responsibility and ownership that would take years longer to get in other startups of similar scale or in financial institutions
• A unique opportunity to join one of the strongest and highest potential crypto startups globally, one with is already commercially successful, yet is small enough to have significant impact and upside
• Great culture: highly professional and ambitious, yet informal, friendly, non-hierarchical, collaborative and entrepreneurial.
• Weekly team events, such as offsite events, team lunches, team dinners, team board games and gaming sessions; these are not obligatory in any sense, but this is what many of us like to do
• Aligned incentive structure: on top of competitive fixed compensation you get significant performance-based variable pay