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Leveraging this institutional foundation, we build core trading infrastructure for Paradex with zero legacy constraints and a relentless focus on clean, maintainable architecture. Since launch, Paradex has facilitated $220+ billion in cumulative trading volume and holds over $100 million in Total Value Locked across 250+ markets.\nWe are actively expanding our options platform and looking for a Quantitative Developer to design, architect, and build our Options Pricing Infrastructure from the ground up.\nHow We Work:\nWe have no product managers, no middle management, and no 1:1s. No bullshit. Just clean, low-latency code. You’ll work directly with our leadership and an elite team of builders in the trenches every day, owning your domain end-to-end.\nFair Warning: This is an intense, high-bar environment. 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You won't just be maintaining a platform; you will be solving one of the hardest problems in crypto derivatives: building high-fidelity, low-latency pricing, risk, and quoting systems that operate reliably across 250+ markets at production scale.\nYou will bridge the gap between rigorous financial engineering and the high-performance backend systems required to deliver it.\nWhat You’ll Do\nMarket Data Systems: Build and maintain the data infrastructure that supports pricing, risk, and research, including real-time tick capture, cross-venue normalization, historical storage, and low-latency replay for backtesting.\n\nPricing Infrastructure: Design and implement pricing models for derivatives. 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