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title: 'Trader at Wormhole Labs'
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# Trader at Wormhole Labs

- **Company:** Wormhole Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs/4e6f2ea6-c5de-464b-8c43-9a21d72dad70

## Job description

Wormhole Labs builds Sunrise ([sunrise.xyz](http://sunrise.xyz)), a platform that helps token issuers launch and list their tokens on Solana. To date, we've orchestrated the launch of 100+ assets on Solana, accounting for more than $10 billion in cumulative trading volume. As a Trader, you'll develop and run strategies for tokenized equities, pricing and hedging risk across onchain markets and traditional brokerage venues. You'll be responsible for managing capital and writing the code that puts your strategies into production. This is a hybrid trading and engineering role.

## What you will do

- Develop and run RFQ-based trading strategies for tokenized spot equities: set parameters such as buffers, spreads, and size limits, while optimizing for evolving business goals.
- Price instruments where reference prices are thin or stale, such as long-tail stocks and extended and overnight sessions.
- Measure execution quality: benchmark fills against references, analyze markouts, and turn what you find into strategy improvements.
- Monitor positions, inventory levels and P&L in real time; proactively flag risks, execute adjustments, and continuously improve tooling & monitoring.
- Integrate with traditional brokerage venues and onchain programs to fill trades and rebalance inventory.

## What we're looking for

- 4+ years trading at a market maker, prop firm, DEX, or brokerage, with professional experience specifically trading spot equities.
- Experience developing RFQ systems.
- A rigorous approach to risk management: you track exposure, hedge thoughtfully, and escalate early when conditions shift.
- Self-directed and adaptable: you're comfortable operating with autonomy in a remote-first environment.
- Strong analytical and software engineering skills (e.g., Rust)

We provide

- Competitive salary and restricted token units, dependent on position type and location.
- Unlimited time off, healthcare premium reimbursement, and 401K.
- Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro laptop.
- Flexibility of working from wherever you have work authorization, as long as you can work 10-6PM US Eastern Time. We minimize unnecessary meetings, but building decentralized systems requires synchronous communication.

## About Wormhole Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wormhole Labs develops open-source blockchain interoperability technology to enable seamless communication and asset transfer across multiple blockchain networks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; operates across the United States, Sweden, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Tony Jin (Co-Founder & CTO), Anthony Ramirez (COO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Blockchain Infrastructure / Cross-Chain Interoperability
- **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, decentralized application (dApp) builders, protocols, and enterprises building multichain applications
- **Mission**: "To radically reduce the friction of building multichain applications" and create a boundaryless blockchain world where users can ignore the underlying technology or dive deep if they choose.

## Products & Services
- **Wormhole Protocol**: The core open-source blockchain messaging protocol that enables cross-chain communication, asset transfers, and data passing between over 30+ blockchains (including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, and others).
- **Wormhole Connect**: A frontend SDK and widget that allows developers to integrate cross-chain functionality into their applications with minimal code.
- **Wormhole Queries**: A system for syncing data across EVM chains and Solana, enabling efficient cross-chain data retrieval.
- **Example Swap Layer**: A reference implementation for a Uniswap-based swap layer integrated with the Wormhole Liquidity Layer.
- **Solana World ID Program**: An on-chain template bringing Worldcoin's World ID identity verification to the Solana ecosystem.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/ Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — not publicly disclosed; company is believed to be well-capitalized given its roots in Jump Trading/Jump Crypto (founders and many early team members came from Jump)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
  - **AMD** — collaborating on FPGA accelerators to enhance blockchain connectivity
  - **Jump Trading / Jump Crypto** — key talent source and likely strategic backer
  - **Uniswap** — via the example swap layer integration
  - **Worldcoin** — via the Solana World ID integration
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 35.7% YoY (from ~9 to 12 employees)
  - Monthly headcount growth of 5.6%
  - Team spans 5 countries with 42% in the US
  - 63 public repositories on GitHub with active open-source contributions
  - High LinkedIn engagement on partnership announcements (e.g., AMD collaboration received 380+ reactions)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep expertise**: Team hails from quantitative trading (Jump Trading), venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds — bringing a rare combination of financial rigor and blockchain engineering depth.
- **Open-source leadership**: Actively contributes to the core Wormhole protocol and maintains 63 public repos, fostering developer trust and ecosystem adoption.
- **Cross-chain ubiquity**: Supports 30+ blockchains, making Wormhole one of the most widely integrated interoperability protocols in the industry.
- **Security-first approach**: Emphasizes secure development practices and partners with hardware leaders (AMD) for FPGA-accelerated blockchain connectivity.
- **Remote-first culture**: Ability to attract top global talent without geographic constraints.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening interoperability**: Continuing to expand the number of supported blockchains and improve cross-chain messaging efficiency.
- **Developer experience**: Making multichain development as simple as single-chain development through SDKs, widgets, and reference implementations.
- **Identity and composability**: Exploring cross-chain identity solutions (e.g., World ID on Solana) and composable liquidity layers.
- **Hardware acceleration**: Partnering with AMD to leverage FPGA technology for faster, more secure blockchain connectivity.
- **Growing the team**: Actively hiring across engineering (Rust, Solana, frontend), product design, and legal functions.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Team operates fully remote, working US Eastern Time hours, allowing for flexible location arrangements.
- **High agency, low ego culture**: The company explicitly seeks "customer obsession, high agency, and extreme ownership" — valuing impact over hierarchy.
- **Cutting-edge blockchain work**: Employees work on one of the most widely used interoperability protocols in the industry, solving genuinely hard distributed systems problems.
- **Diverse, global team**: Colleagues from quantitative trading, venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds across the US, Europe, and Asia.
- **Open-source impact**: Contributions are public, visible, and directly used by developers building on 30+ blockchains.
- **Growth trajectory**: Small team (~12 people) with rapid growth — offering outsized ownership and impact for early employees.
- **Current open roles** (as of mid-2025): Senior Product Engineer, Solana Protocol Engineer, Full-Stack Blockchain Engineer, Creative Director, General Counsel — indicating expansion across engineering, product, and leadership.

## Sources
1. [wormholelabs.xyz](https://www.wormholelabs.xyz/)
2. [LinkedIn - Wormhole Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wormholelabs)
3. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Careers](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz)
4. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz/jobs)
5. [GitHub - Wormhole Labs](https://github.com/wormholelabs-xyz/)
6. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs)

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