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🕒 March 23

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Cronos | Cronos Labs

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51 - 200 employees

₿ Crypto

🎮 Gaming

🌐 Web 3

Crypto • Gaming • Web 3

Cronos Labs is a Web3 startup accelerator that focuses on Decentralized Finance and blockchain games, as well as the development of the Cronos blockchain ecosystem.

📋 Description

• Primary Mandate: Trading Infrastructure (The Gap) Hybrid CLOB & Matching Engine. Architect and ship the off-chain Sidecar Sequencer (Rust) with <5ms P50 tick-to-trade latency, 100K OPS throughput, and <1ms latency variance. • Risk Engine & Margin Systems. Build the full risk stack: collateral weighting, cross-asset netting, initial margin checks, dynamic maintenance thresholds. • Liquidation Infrastructure. Design and implement the liquidation engine, auto-deleveraging (ADL) system, and insurance fund architecture. • Perpetuals & Derivatives Engine. Perpetual futures with funding rate mechanisms, leverage management, and position lifecycle. • Oracle Integration & Market Data. Manipulation-resistant price feeds for liquidation triggers, mark price computation, and cross-market reference pricing. • Secondary Mandate: Platform & Blockchain Smart Contract & Blockchain Infrastructure. Cronos chain upgrades, USDC migration (IOU to native stablecoin), bridge and cross-chain infrastructure, smart contract security and audit pipeline. • Platform & Mobile Engineering. Mobile-first consumer app for emerging markets.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep trading infrastructure and risk management experience. You have built matching engines, margin systems, liquidation engines, or real-time risk platforms. • Derivatives market structure fluency. Perpetuals, options, funding rates, mark price computation, portfolio margin. • Hands-on blockchain/DeFi depth or proven ability to ramp fast. EVM smart contracts (Solidity), protocol design, bridge security, token standards. • A professional network in risk engineering. You've worked alongside risk engineers, risk quants, and model risk managers throughout your career. • 12+ years engineering, 5+ in senior technical leadership. VP Engineering, CTO, Head of Engineering, Chief Architect, or equivalent. • Systems-level technical depth. You can review PRs, debug smart contracts, make real-time architecture calls, and argue about sequencer design at the implementation level. This is not an "above the code" role.

🏖️ Benefits

• Greenfield opportunity. You are not inheriting someone else's architecture. You are building from scratch with full ownership of the technical stack. • Real distribution. Leverage crypto.com's 150M users, global sponsorships, and brand trust are assets you can deploy, not theoretical advantages. • Executive seat. This is a C-level role with direct accountability to Crypto.com leadership. You will be in the room, not reporting into the room. • Significant upside. CRO equity participation means you benefit directly from the success of the ecosystem. • The right moment. Retail trading behavior has permanently shifted toward high-volatility assets. Sports betting normalized speculation. Prediction markets are exploding. The infrastructure finally exists. We are building for this moment.