DeFi Engineer Zug, Switzerland

Company Overview:Dialectic, a crypto-native organization of builders and capital advisors, is seeking a senior-level investment professional to join the team on a full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing team, focused on investing in and building compelling software in emerging crypto and blockchain technologies. We produce outlier results through a series of diversified investment strategies in the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Job Summary: We are offering a DeFi Engineer position for a person with strong quantitative and development skills and EVM‑DeFi knowledge. The successful candidate should be able to analyse complex DeFi interactions at the smart‑contract level, reverse‑engineer the functioning of DeFi protocols and produce proof‑of‑concept code to illustrate the functioning of protocols, and ultimately integrate them in our onchain execution stack.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analysing existing and novel DeFi protocols and understanding the key mechanisms at play to interact with the protocol.
• Producing proof‑of‑concept code proving the understanding of the protocol and its mechanisms.
• Translating this knowledge into production ready integrations in our proprietary stack.
• Being able to simulate and test the developed integrations in the context of the Dialectic books.
• Producing analyses and reports in the form of notebooks to illustrate functioning of protocol interactions and research output.
• Work closely with the Software team to implement required features to support new integrations.
• Work closely with the portfolio managers to understand their current needs, and proactively suggest operations.

Key Requirements:

• Deep understanding of EVM‑DeFi protocols and capital flows in DeFi.
• Ability to investigate onchain transactions using existing and custom tools.
• Background in sciences, finance or computer/data science with a deep understanding of financial markets.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, be independent and be flexible.
• Development skills in Python.
• Skills in other Languages such as Rust and Solidity would be considered a strong asset.
• Ability to find and clean data with respect to opaque markets.
• Advanced data visualization skills would be considered a strong asset.
• Self‑motivated, disciplined and detail‑oriented.
• Dynamic and collegiality in a small team working in fields that are shaping the future of our society.
• As a modern employer, we offer you contemporary working conditions, a lot of space to develop yourself alongside the company as well as exciting and challenging projects.
• Competetive compensation, bonus and participation opportunities.
• Exposure to extremely talented people and very interesting clients who have unique investment profiles.
• Supportive work and team atmosphere with flat hierarchies and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
• Dialectic is an equal‑opportunity employer with strong diverse workforce.