At Kuru Labs, we are building the foundation for global markets with a focus on speed, composability, and security. Our product, Kuru Exchange, is a CLOB DEX built natively on Monad, bringing the speed and capital efficiency of centralized exchanges fully on-chain.

The key differentiation: we’re pioneering an EVM-native, fully on-chain order book—unlocking a new standard for trading infrastructure in crypto. Having raised $11.8M in a Series A round led by Paradigm in July 2025, we’re now focused on thoughtfully expanding the team.

Role & Responsibilities

- Design, build, and optimize the core trading systems powering the exchange, including execution, market making, and pricing infrastructure.
- Prototype, and implement quantitative models and trading strategies to improve liquidity, execution quality, and market efficiency.
- Build highly performant, low-latency systems with a focus on correctness, scalability, and reliability.
- Work closely with protocol, backend, and infrastructure engineers to design and implement new exchange features and trading primitives.
- Analyze market microstructure, trading behavior, and production data to identify opportunities for improving execution, incentives, and system performance.
- Drive the technical direction and architecture of the trading stack, balancing performance, maintainability, and operational simplicity.
- Lead technical discussions, and foster a culture of ownership, high engineering standards, and continuous learning.
- Stay abreast of advances in quantitative finance, decentralized finance, and distributed systems, evaluating and integrating new ideas where appropriate.

Required

- 5+ years of experience designing and building high-performance, low-latency trading systems, such as execution engines, order management systems,



market making infrastructure, matching engines.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and operating complex production trading systems, with a strong understanding of concurrency, networking, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
- Ability to reason about systems across multiple levels of abstraction to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and systems design, with a focus on correctness, scalability, and latency-critical software.
- A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas and a team first attitude.
- Passion for decentralized finance, market microstructure, and building the next generation of financial infrastructure.

Preferred

- Experience building infrastructure for crypto markets, including centralized or decentralized exchanges, market making systems, MEV, or execution platforms.
- Hands-on experience with blockchain systems, preferably EVM-based ecosystems.
- Experience leading small engineering teams.

Why work with us?

- Challenging problems - You’ll work on extremely challenging and unique problems that haven’t existed before.
- Huge opportunity - With Monad’s Parallel EVM, it is possible to build really performant applications that can support mass user adoption in crypto.
- The right team - You’ll be part of a small, exceptional team that wants to make a dent in the universe
- Culture - We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs. As an early member of our team, you’ll help continue to shape our culture.
- Compensation - You’ll receive a market-competitive salary and equity package.

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