Senior Software Engineer — DEX
Gala
Gala
Gala is creating entertainment that empowers on the blockchain. Across our family of brands, including Games, Music, Film, Blockchain and VOX, we're empowering creators and fans to build the future of entertainment.
Powered by talent from around the globe, we believe in making bold moves to create products that have never been seen in the marketplace. Gala was founded by Eric Schiermeyer (gaming legend and co-founder of Zynga) and ever since Gala has grown to be a leader in Web3 entertainment.
Under the Gala brand, we have a growing roster of reputable partners across Gaming and Entertainment, including DreamWorks, AMC, and NBCU. Plus, legendary game developers Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and music greats like Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Kings of Leon, and BT.
Our values are based on openness and ownership and the ability to deliver games, experiences, and opportunities to people worldwide. We are breaking down barriers to bring our communities joy, entertainment, and real-world value.
At Gala, we work with flexibility; we have a great time with our colleagues and love getting things done. While working here, you'll imagine and create new and exciting things for the world to enjoy. Your talents and efforts will improve our audiences' lives in the real world.
And this is just the beginning…
About The Role
Join our DEX team to design, build, and scale the services that power decentralized trading—order books, matching, market data, settlement flows, and on-chain integrations. You’ll own critical paths from API to ledger, balance low-latency engineering with safety and compliance, and help set technical standards used across wallet, core chain, and exchange.
What You’ll Do
- Architect and build DEX services (matching/order routing, RFQ/AMM integration, market data, settlement pipelines) with a focus on throughput, determinism, and fault isolation.
- Design APIs (REST/WebSocket) and data models that are explicit, versioned, and easy to integrate.
- Integrate on-chain logic with our blockchain: trigger transactions, consume events, and coordinate settlement/finality with retries and idempotency.
- Performance & reliability: profile hotspots, tune concurrency, apply backpressure, and set SLOs; lead game days and incident reviews.
- Security & compliance by design: implement authN/Z, rate limiting, ledger-grade audit trails, tamper-evident logs, PII minimization, and least-privilege patterns.
- Observability: define golden signals, metrics, tracing, and error budgets; automate runbooks.
- Testing discipline: property-based tests, deterministic simulators, chaos/load testing, and canary/blue-green deploys.
- Leverage AI for code suggestions, perf analysis, and incident triage, with mandatory human validation and production change controls to ensure accuracy and safety.
- Collaboration: partner with wallet, smart-contract, and blockchain teams; mentor engineers; write clear RFCs and design docs.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years professional software engineering, including 3+ years building high-throughput backend/distributed systems (trading, payments, real-time APIs, or similar).
- Deep skill in at least one of: TypeScript/Node.js, Go, or Rust; comfortable working across languages when needed.
- Strong database fundamentals (PostgreSQL or equivalent), in-memory systems (Redis), and event streaming (Kafka/NATS/Redis Streams).
- Experience with containerized cloud deployments (Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform) and CI/CD.
- Proven track record shipping systems with low latency, high availability, and strong correctness guarantees.
- Security hygiene (secrets management, key rotation, secure coding) and familiarity with audit and regulatory considerations (logging, access controls, change management).
- Clear communication, pragmatic judgment, and a bias for measurable outcomes.
Nice to Have
- DEX/CEX domain experience (order books, market microstructure, AMMs, liquidity management, fee/discount schedules).
- Blockchain experience (Hyperledger Fabric or other permissioned chains; chaincode or smart contract integration; event-driven settlement flows).
- Production experience with WebSockets, gRPC, and idempotent transactional patterns.
- Prior work on risk engines (pre-trade checks, limits), surveillance hooks, or compliance controls (e.g., sanctions screening integrations).
- Observability stacks (DataDog) and SRE practices.
- Fintech or security certifications are a plus.
Work Style & Time Zones
- Remote-first; meaningful overlap with US business hours expected,restrictions on some countries
- Participation in light on-call rotation with strong automation/runbooks.
Gala is an equal-opportunity employer and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
Remote-first, people-first.
We’re a distributed team built on trust, flexibility, and outcomes.
- Remote-first work. Thrive from wherever you do your best work in the U.S.
- Health coverage (U.S.). 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, and Vision.
- Optional pet insurance.
- Unlimited PTO. Take the time you need to rest and recharge.
- Paid Parental Leave. Support for growing families.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Confidential counseling and resources.
- …and much more.
Benefits shown apply to U.S.-based, full-time employees and may vary by location and role. All offerings are governed by the applicable plan documents and company policies.
NEXT STEPS
If you have the experience, passion, and drive to join our team, then please submit a resume by clicking the apply button below.
Our Recruiting Team and Hiring Managers carefully review all applications. If your qualifications align with the role, we’ll reach out to discuss next steps. Thank you for your interest in joining our team!
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for our positions. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the country indicated by the job description without the need for visa sponsorship.
Gala does not accept unsolicited referrals or resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes from vendors including, and without limitation, search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies. Gala will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. We kindly ask that external recruitment agencies or third-party vendors refrain from contacting any managers or senior leadership directly regarding job postings or potential candidate submissions.