FalconX
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Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
17
+8 posted in 30 days
Backers
11
Wellington Management, Accel
Momentum
44/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 22, 2025
Acquisition FalconX Acquires Leading ETP Provider 21shares, Accelerating the Convergence of Digital Assets and Traditional Finance · PRNewswire
May 13, 2025
Partnership FalconX and Standard Chartered Announce Strategic Partnership · manilatimes.net
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.41%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Wellington Management 
Accel 
Accomplice 
Cadenza Ventures 
Cleo Capital 
F-Prime Capital 
Founders Circle Capital 
IDEO CoLab Ventures www 
Lightspeed Venture Partners 
Sapphire Ventures 
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How FalconX hires
Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
36 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
80%
Reposted roles
0%
FalconX scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 80% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 36 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
FalconX is a digital asset prime brokerage founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It provides institutional clients with aggregated liquidity, credit, derivatives and clearing across a single account. The firm serves hedge funds, asset managers and corporates and has expanded into regulated derivatives markets in the United States.
News
Polygon POL faces a $1.29M FalconX deposit - Can $0.08934 hold?
Polygon encountered supply pressure as FalconX moved 14 million tokens valued $1.29 million into the Binance amid its ongoing correction.
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FalconX Completes Acquisition of 21shares
/PRNewswire/ -- FalconX, a leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage, today announced the completed acquisition of 21shares - accelerating the...
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FalconX Acquires Leading ETP Provider 21shares, Accelerating the Convergence of Digital Assets and Traditional Finance
/PRNewswire/ -- FalconX, a leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage, today announced that it has agreed to acquire 21shares, the provider of the...
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Binance, FalconX and the Curious Case of 1.35M Missing Solana Tokens
Crypto brokerage FalconX had 1.35 million solana (SOL) in its possession since 2021, but didn
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Binance, FalconX and the Curious Case of 1.35M Missing Solana Tokens
Crypto prime broker FalconX didn't know who the SOL tokens belonged to until crypto exchange Binance came asking for them years later.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at FalconX over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
45
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
74/100
Languages
Python44%
Java19%
SQL13%
Rust13%
Databases
MySQL13%
DynamoDB6%
PostgreSQL6%
Redis6%
Cloud & platforms
AWS19%
Linux19%
Grafana13%
Amazon EC26%
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Full FalconX tech stack
45 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$226k
Typical range
$119k – $269k
Open positions
10
9
Jobs
Junior
22.2%
Senior
55.6%
Staff
11.1%
Architect
11.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $143k | $119k – $167k |
| Senior | 5 | $226k | $162k – $248k |
| Staff | 1 | $269k | $269k |
| Architect | 1 | $252k | $252k |
Highest paying role
Trading Systems Infrastructure Staff Engineer
$269k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at FalconX
By role, level and city, against the market · 10 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
83/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
18
6 opened / 14 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
29 days
faster than 42% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Legal
24%
Field & Service
24% ▲
Operations
20% ▼
DevOps
8% ▼
Finance
8% ▼
Data Science
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Field & Service (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: San Mateo
Oct 2026
New location: San Francisco
Oct 2026
New location: Greece
Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom
Oct 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Malta
Sep 2026
Added Layer 2 to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
3
Countries
4
Busiest office
San Mateo
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San Mateo
United States
HQ
San Mateo (HQ)
1 open roles 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
New York
11 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 9% remote 200-500 est. staff $208k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Field & Service, DevOps
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
Bangalore - India
5 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Leadership
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Regional office
Hong Kong
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
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