The Opportunity
Cronos Labs is building the consumer trading app for the next generation of retail traders — a mobile-first platform where users can trade tokenized stocks, crypto perpetuals, spot markets, and prediction markets within a single unified balance and margin system. At the core of this platform is a high-performance trading venue. We are building a hybrid CLOB + RFQ execution system alongside a full perpetuals and risk engine. This role is about engineering that system end-to-end: the matching engine, perpetuals core, margin and risk framework, and liquidation infrastructure.
About the role This is a VP Engineer role — individual contributors whose impact is measured through the systems they build. The VP title reflects the scope and criticality of this work, not organisational authority. We are looking for engineers with deep, first-hand experience shipping financial trading systems in production. The nuances of a well-built CLOB or perpetuals engine are learned thr...