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# Member of Technical Staff at Liquid

- **Company:** Liquid
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $160k–$320k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/liquid/7b47044b-4b81-44b4-8986-ea5eaaa85c27

## Job description

## About Liquid

Liquid is a trading platform to trade anything, anytime, and anywhere. Our team is small, highly efficient, motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. We cultivate individuals that enjoy ownership and thrive off of agency. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on, and contribute directly to the company's mission. Work ethic, contextual organization and strong prioritization are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

## About the role

We're seeking a remarkable Member of Technical Staff to join our team in managing and enhancing reliability, automating processes, and conjuring excellent experiences for platforms tens of thousands are using now. The ideal candidate will combine strong coding capabilities, contextual awareness, and previous experience to build robust experiences that users can rely on.

## Responsibilities

- Contribute perspective and craft delightful, interactive, and intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with trading platforms on mobile
- Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with designers and engineers to create lightning-fast, highly performant trading systems

## Qualifications

We do not believe that technical prowess is correlated to age, or previous experience.

- You have a strong technical background, backed by proof
- You take extreme pride in your work, and thrive in meritocratic environments
- You are an exceptional software engineer

## What we prefer

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or a closely related technical field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Previous work in open-source, which we will inquire about if applicable
- A trading/Olympiad background, but will not be considered negatively if without
- React, Python for working with our other platforms and backend components
- Pride themselves on delivering results swiftly, often faster than their peers; we ship extremely fast here, and with that we must all maintain velocity
- An eye for product sense, with an ability to empathize with users, anticipate what they actually need, and translate that into features that deliver actual value

Our interview process We do not believe in traditional interview processes, and a practical experience is better for us to gauge your experience. You can expect one, or a process similar to the following, based on our perception of your weakness:

- Peer programming, fitted with system design into an existing implemented system
- Implementing new features and deploying them properly
- Theoretical questions, pertaining to systematic processes in a work environment

Work trials are paid generously and we may fly you out to New York City to integrate with the team and the office.

## Compensation and benefits

$160,000 – $320,000 USD Base salary is not only one of our total compensation package at Liquid, which also includes early equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, wellness benefits, transportation to-and-from office, and fully compensated lunch and dinner.

## About Liquid

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Liquid is a fintech startup building a trading platform that lets users long or short 500+ markets (crypto, stocks, commodities, FX, pre-IPO) with up to 200x leverage, 24/7, with instant settlement.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series Seed – two rounds totaling $25.6M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial services / trading platform
- **Target customers**: B2C retail traders (self-directed)
- **Mission**: To build the ultimate financial superapp that lets anyone trade anything, anywhere, anytime – “the future of trading” [liquid.trade](https://www.liquid.trade/)

## Products & Services
- **Liquid Trading Platform**: A mobile-first app (iOS/Android) offering perpetual-style trading on crypto, stocks, commodities, forex, and private-company “pre-IPO” markets. Features include up to 200x multipliers, instant settlement, no lock-ups, and the ability to go long or short. [liquid.trade](https://www.liquid.trade/)
- **Co‑Invest**: A feature that allows users to trade directly inside ChatGPT and Claude, described as the first way to trade inside AI assistants. [liquid.trade](https://www.liquid.trade/)
- **Prediction Markets**: A “browse prediction markets” section is mentioned on the markets page, indicating expansion into event-based trading. [liquid.trade/markets](https://www.liquid.trade/markets)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $25.6M (as of April 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Neo, Left Lane Capital (co-leads of $18M round), Paradigm (led $7.6M seed), General Catalyst, plus prominent angels across fintech and crypto. [liquid.trade/series-seed-announcement](https://www.liquid.trade/series-seed-announcement)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 6 employees (as of mid‑2026) with monthly growth of +22.2% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryliquid)
  - Website traffic: ~23,747 monthly visits, +108.9% month-over-month growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryliquid)
  - LinkedIn followers: 693, +144.9% monthly growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryliquid)
  - Two seed rounds closed within six months (Nov 2025 and Apr 2026), indicating strong investor confidence.

## Competitive Advantages
- **200x leverage** on a wide range of assets – significantly higher than most retail platforms.
- **24/7 trading with instant settlement** – no market hours, no T+2 settlement delays.
- **No lock-ups or position settlement periods** – close a position in seconds.
- **AI-native integration** (Co‑Invest) – first mover in trading via ChatGPT and Claude.
- **Multi‑asset aggregation** – crypto, stocks, forex, commodities, and private markets in one app.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the “financial superapp” by expanding market coverage (prediction markets, pre-IPO) and deepening AI integrations. [liquid.trade/series-seed-announcement](https://www.liquid.trade/series-seed-announcement)
- Scale the team (currently 6 people) to accelerate product development and go-to-market.

## Why Work Here
- **Early‑stage impact**: Join a 6-person team where every hire has outsized influence on product and culture.
- **Technical intensity**: 5 of 6 employees are in technical roles (engineering, product engineering) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryliquid)
- **Location**: Offices in New York (HQ at 524 Broadway) and Jersey City; likely hybrid/office-first given small team.
- **Backed by top VCs**: Neo, Left Lane Capital, Paradigm, General Catalyst – strong signal for stability and resources.
- **Culture**: Described as building “the future of trading” with a focus on speed, leverage, and AI; ideal for engineers who want to work on high‑performance trading systems and consumer fintech.

## Sources
1. [liquid.trade](https://www.liquid.trade/) – Product overview and features
2. [liquid.trade/series-seed-announcement](https://www.liquid.trade/series-seed-announcement) – Funding announcement
3. [linkedin.com/company/tryliquid](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryliquid) – Company details, headcount, growth metrics
4. [liquid.trade/markets](https://www.liquid.trade/markets) – Markets page
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/liquid](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/liquid/7b47044b-4b81-44b4-8986-ea5eaaa85c27) – Careers page (example job listing)

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