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The salary range for this Software Engineer: Gauntlet App position is $165,000 to $205,000 per year. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, and location.

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Software Engineer: Gauntlet App

$165k - $205k

Gauntlet New York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote Today

engineering

Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating most spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. We build institutional-grade vaults for decentralized finance, delivering risk-adjusted onchain yields for capital at scale. Designed by the most vigilant, quantitative minds in crypto and informed by years of research.

As of November 2025, Gauntlet manages over $2B in vault TVL, and optimizes risk and incentives covering over $42 billion in customer TVL. We continually publish cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institutions — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 75 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.

As a company, we build institutional-grade vaults that deliver risk-adjusted DeFi yields at scale, powered by automated risk models and off-chain intelligence. Gauntlet curates strategies across Morpho, Drift, Symbiotic, Aera and more, with >$2B in vault TVL and a growing suite of Prime, Core and Frontier vaults.

Our mission is to drive adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future. We operate with a trader’s discipline and a risk manager’s skepticism: size carefully, stress routinely, unwind decisively. The label equals the package equals the contents. No surprises, just predictable, reliable vaults.

Join a newly formed product pod focused on the Gauntlet App — our next-generation dApp that allows users to deposit and withdraw into vaults directly. This role is part of a critical initiative to evolve our dashboard into a product directly connected to revenue. You'll be working on a high-impact project tightly aligned with Gauntlet’s core strategy, helping build a robust, user-facing experience at the heart of our business.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and maintenance of full-stack features for Gauntlet’s decentralized application, ensuring high performance and scalability

Partner closely with front-end engineers to deliver cohesive and well-integrated user experiences

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing

Engage in systems design and architecture discussions to build robust backend services supporting the application

Participate actively in code reviews and design sessions, promoting best practices and high-quality code standards

Collaborate with product managers and researchers to translate requirements into effective technical solutions

Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software issues to maintain system reliability and performance

Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on full-stack engineering.

Strong proficiency in TypeScript for full-stack development

Proven ability to design and implement user-centric applications, emphasizing seamless user experiences.

Solid experience with backend systems and APIs, including systems design and architecture

Familiarity with Python or the ability to be language agnostic

Proven ability to collaborate effectively with others engineers and mentor team members

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a focus on application development lifecycle

Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a distributed team environment

Bonus Points

Interest or experience in DeFi concepts like decentralized applications (dApps) and on-chain interactions

Familiarity with financial technology (fintech) products and user experiences.

Previous work on applications that handle monetary transactions or sensitive user data.

Familiarity with application development lifecycle from end to end

Experience developing and shipping user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks such as React

History utilizing, at any level, technologies and languages like Solidity or Rust

Experience working in smaller teams or startups, demonstrating broad technical versatility

Background working with data pipelines or tooling, including ETL processes, orchestration tools and integrating data flows in production environments

Benefits and Perks

Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!

Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation

Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk

100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees

Laptop provided

$1,000 WFH stipend upon joining

$100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses

Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data

Unlimited vacation policy

100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks

Fertility benefits

Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.

The national pay range for this role is $165,000 - $205,000 plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.

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