About Renegade We're building the first dark pool built natively for onchain markets.
Renegade is an onchain dark pool, a private exchange for institutional crypto trading, fully onchain with no trusted intermediaries. In TradFi, dark pools account for roughly 40% of US equities volume. That entire layer of market structure barely exists in crypto.
Renegade brings that infrastructure to DeFi. We match orders at the midpoint of the Binance bid-ask spread, without moving the market, without leaking information, and without leaving the chain. Funds, solvers, and market makers that integrate with Renegade get better price execution, with savings on spreads, market impact, and fees.
Since launch on Arbitrum and Base, Renegade has processed $336M in all-time trading volume with $100M in daily order flow.
We've been live since late 2024, are well-funded by leading investors. We are a lean high-caliber team that works in person in San Francisco.
You can see the work directly here
About The Role
We are seeking a systems-focused engineer to join our close-knit team. In this role, you will have strong ownership of core systems and a wide surface area to make a tangible impact.
Example projects
- Design a scalable onchain event ingestion + indexing pipeline
- Optimize our hedging stack to improve delta neutrality for altcoins
- Debug gnarly distributed-systems issues (e.g. raft / consensus edge cases)
- Benchmark + optimize our ZK prover stack to raise throughput / rate limits You can shape the role: if you want more customer-facing work, great. If you want to go heads-down and aggressively optimize performance and reliability, also great.
Candidate Profile & Mindset
You're excited by hard systems problems: trading infrastructure, ZK, distributed systems, performance-sensitive Rust, etc. You're also senior-leaning on systems judgment:
- You've built/operated production systems and can anticipate scaling + failure modes
- You have taste: you push for simpler designs, strong invariants, good observability
- You are thoughtful: you can design safe systems that manage 7 figures of onchain funds
- You can move fast without making the codebase impossible to understand If this fits, we look forward to chatting!
About Renegade
Renegade, founded in 2022 by Chris Bender and Joey Kraut in San Francisco, builds an on-chain dark pool for anonymous crypto trading. Its flagship venue, Renegade Dark Pool, uses multiparty computation and zero-knowledge proofs to match orders without revealing size or direction pre-trade, settling directly on-chain with self-custody on Arbitrum and Base. Orders are pegged to the real-time Binance midpoint to eliminate price impact and MEV. Headquartered in San Francisco with a lean engineering team, Renegade emphasizes cryptography, market microstructure and privacy-preserving settlement rather than custodial matching. Backed by Dragonfly, Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan with $3.4M seed funding, the team contributes to private DeFi research. Expect a highly technical culture that prizes low-level cryptography, precise execution design and building durable privacy for professional traders.