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title: 'Quantitative Markets Engineer at pod network'
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# Quantitative Markets Engineer at pod network

- **Company:** pod network
- **Location:** EU UK OR North, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pod-network/c99d6e68-3142-437c-836d-8f15fcb65789

## Job description

Pod Network is rebuilding the world's markets from first principles - a global, always-on venue where execution is fast, fair, and provably free of the MEV and manipulation that distort today's exchanges. We're looking for someone who thinks in markets: order books, derivatives, risk, and liquidity. You'll design how our markets actually work and build the primitives that make them tradeable.

## About the Role

You'll own the trading and markets layer at the heart of Pod - the order book, perpetuals engine, risk and margin systems, leverage logic, and the financial primitives built on top. This is a markets-first engineering role: your edge is a deep understanding of market microstructure, derivatives, and market making, paired with the ability to turn that knowledge into working code. You'll set the parameters that govern live markets, build and run Pod's internal market maker, and partner with external market makers to bootstrap liquidity across new venues.

## What You'll Do

- Improve and maintain Pod's core trading modules: order book, perpetuals engine, risk engine, and leverage/margin systems.
- Configure and tune market parameters - funding, fees, tick/lot sizes, margin tiers, liquidation thresholds - as you launch and operate new markets.
- Design and ship novel on-chain financial primitives: vaults, proprietary/protocol AMMs, prediction markets, and other derivatives.
- Build and operate Pod's internal market maker, and partner with external market makers to deepen liquidity.
- Monitor live markets for health, risk, and anomalies, iterating on parameters and safeguards in response to real flow.
- Work closely with research on incentive design, batch auction mechanics, and settlement models.

## Qualifications

Must-have:

- Deep understanding of market microstructure: order books, matching, derivatives (especially perpetuals), margin, liquidation, and funding mechanics.
- Hands-on experience in market making, quant trading, or designing/operating exchange and trading systems.
- Ability to translate markets knowledge into production code (e.g. Python, Rust, C++, or Go) and reason about correctness and edge cases under live trading conditions.

Bonus:

- DeFi / on-chain trading experience: AMMs, perp DEXs, vault strategies, prediction markets.
- Experience with low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
- Blockchains, consensus, or distributed systems.

## What We Offer

- Ownership of one of the most consequential surfaces at Pod, with direct impact on how global markets clear.
- Competitive salary plus meaningful upside.
- A high-impact role in an ambitious, fast-moving team working alongside strong researchers and top market makers.
- Travel opportunities and thought-leadership visibility in the crypto community.

## About Pod Network

We are building Pod Network, a Layer-1 for open markets. Orders clear in frequent [batch auctions](https://docs.v2.pod.network/documentation/markets/markets-overview), so the best price wins, not the fastest connection. Anyone can launch a market, its rules enforced by code, and anyone, anywhere can trade on it 24/7. We are backed by a16z crypto, 1kx, BBF, and Lemniscap.

## About pod network

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pod Network is building a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain designed for MEV-free, high-performance global markets, using batch auctions to eliminate latency advantages.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Manhattan Beach, California, United States (with offices in New York, NY and Athens, Greece)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Shresth Agrawal (CEO), Haris Karavasilis (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Layer-1 Blockchain Infrastructure, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Target customers: Developers building decentralized market applications (order books, AMMs, perpetual futures), Web3 protocols, and financial applications
- Mission purpose: To rebuild financial markets from the ground up on trustless blockchain infrastructure, eliminating the advantages of speed and proximity that create unfair markets

## Products & Services
- **Pod Network (L1 Blockchain)**: A novel stake-based programmable Layer-1 with EVM compatibility (EVMx), offering sub-150ms transaction finality and up to 300k TPS. Uses batch auctions instead of continuous order books to eliminate MEV and front-running.
- **Built-in Market Primitives**: Asset-agnostic, fully on-chain composable primitives including order book, matching engine, liquidation, and oracles, enabling developers to launch sophisticated markets quickly.
- **shitpost.wtf**: A decentralized social network built on Pod’s devnet, launched as a proof-of-concept and testing ground.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $10.5M USD
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z crypto (led pre-seed and seed), 1kx, Lemniscap, Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF), Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Protagonist
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $10M seed round in January 2025; headcount grew 160% YoY to 8 employees; integrated with Pi Squared’s Universal Settlement Layer and Rollup-Boost; actively hiring for 5 open positions as of mid-2025

## Competitive Advantages
- **MEV Elimination**: Batch-based ordering removes any advantage from being first in line — the best price wins, not the fastest node. This is a fundamental architectural differentiator from Solana, Ethereum, and other L1s.
- **Latency-Optimal Design**: Sub-150ms finality with no blocks and strong consensus, making it purpose-built for high-frequency trading use cases.
- **EVM Backward Compatibility**: EVMx extension allows developers to use familiar Ethereum tooling (Solidity, wallets, JSON RPC) while gaining Pod’s performance benefits.
- **All-in-One Market Infrastructure**: Provides native order book, matching engine, liquidation engine, and oracles — reducing the complexity of launching a new market.

## Strategic Focus
- Building the premier Layer-1 for global, trustless financial markets
- Expanding developer ecosystem through integrations with Ethereum L2s (Rollup-Boost) and settlement layers (Pi Squared)
- Growing the team in engineering (Smart Contract, Backend/HFT) and business development
- Scaling from devnet to mainnet with a focus on real-world market applications (perpetual futures already live on devnet)

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering Culture**: Deep technical challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, cryptography, and high-frequency trading. Team includes PhDs and engineers from top institutions (Yale, Amazon, Ubisoft, Andreessen Horowitz).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Has offices in Manhattan Beach (CA), New York (NY), and Athens, Greece — suggesting a hybrid/remote-friendly culture with physical hubs.
- **Team Size & Ownership**: Very small team (~8 people) means high ownership, direct impact on core protocol design, and close collaboration with founders.
- **Backing**: Backed by a16z crypto and top-tier crypto VCs, providing strong runway and credibility.
- **Global Team**: Distributed across Greece, US, Poland, and UK — offering a multicultural, remote-first working environment.

## Sources
1. [pod.network](https://pod.network/)
2. [LinkedIn - Pod Network](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pod-dot-network)
3. [Tracxn - Pod Network Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/podnetwork/__osXXKpS8KwkJA8UqsU0g6frkuj4zBK06PUqMQg4CAVk)
4. [Ashby - Pod Network Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pod-network)
5. [Pod Network Team Page](https://pod.network/team)

## Other roles at pod network

- [QA Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/qa-engineer-pod-network-united-kingdom-europe-turkey-eastern-europe-south-6dg14ecx3q2e) — United Kingdom / Europe / Turkey / Eastern Europe / South Africa / United Arab Emirates / Gulf Region / India
- [Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-pod-network-middle-east-europe-united-kingdom-north-america-n342vn288gd1) — Middle East / Europe / United Kingdom / North America
- [Apply with us](https://feeny.ai/job/apply-with-us-pod-network-eu-uk-or-north-svmsj5rzepr8) — EU UK OR North, United States