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About Derivatives in DeFi
DeFi derivatives protocols bring sophisticated financial instruments to the blockchain, including perpetual futures, options, and synthetic assets. These platforms enable traders to gain leveraged exposure to crypto assets, hedge positions, and speculate on price movements. Working at a derivatives protocol involves building high-performance trading systems and risk management infrastructure.
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What technical skills do derivatives protocols look for?
Derivatives protocols need engineers with strong math and finance backgrounds. Key skills include Solidity or Rust for on-chain order books and margin engines, experience with pricing models (Black-Scholes, funding rate calculations), and low-latency systems design for matching engines.
How do on-chain derivatives differ from centralized ones?
On-chain derivatives run entirely through smart contracts, making them transparent and non-custodial. Engineers build automated liquidation systems, oracle-based price feeds, and gas-efficient settlement logic. The technical challenges differ significantly from centralized exchanges, requiring blockchain-native design patterns.
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Strategic Finance Lead
Job Description
Better Money
Strike is the Bitcoin company. With Strike, you can buy and sell bitcoin, pay bills, and borrow against your holdings. From individuals to businesses, Strike is purpose-built for every step of the Bitcoin journey. Available in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Strike is building a better financial system powered by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is better money. Strike is how you use it.
Role:
We believe money should move instantly, globally, and without friction. Our products power brokerage and Bitcoin-backed lending for individuals and businesses around the world.
We operate lean. We move quickly. We care deeply about capital discipline.
We are hiring a Strategic Finance Lead to help architect the financial engine behind our next stage of growth. This role sits at the center of capital allocation, pricing, long-range planning, and investor engagement.
This is not traditional FP&A. This is a role for someone who understands capital, risk, and scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the company’s financial architecture - long-range planning, multi-scenario modeling, and company-level decision support
- Drive financial strategy across brokerage and lending, with clear return and risk frameworks
- Lead lending and pricing economics, including loan book profitability, stress testing, and structured pricing strategy
- Define the operating and financial metrics that matter, building durable modeling infrastructure that scales with the business
- Support board and investor engagement, translating complex financial dynamics into clear, disciplined narratives
- Operate cross-functionally across Treasury, Accounting, Data, Product, and Partnerships to ensure financial rigor is embedded in how Strike builds and deploys capital
Requirements
- 7–12 years in investment banking, corporate finance, private credit, capital markets, fintech finance, or similarly rigorous environments
- Experience modeling credit or balance sheet-driven businesses
- Strong intuition for cost of capital, financial structuring, and capital efficiency
- Experience working cross-functionally with treasury, accounting, data, or product teams
- Experience supporting senior leaders and interacting with boards or investors
- Advanced financial modeling skills (multi-scenario, sensitivity, stress testing)
- Clear, concise communicator - able to turn complexity into insight
- High ownership mindset; comfortable building from zero
- Fintech, financial services, or crypto experience is a plus
Why This Role Matters
- Strike builds real financial products. Capital efficiency and risk discipline are not optional.
- This role helps ensure we scale with clarity, resilience, and strong financial foundations.
- If you want to build the financial backbone of a Bitcoin-native institution, we’d love to talk.
US-Based positions:
- Salary range: $180-198K
- Equity in a high-growth startup
- Health, dental, and vision insurance premium contributions; short & long-term disability insurance and basic life insurance
- Cell phone and internet reimbursement
- Flexible PTO, sick leave & parental leave
- Access to a company 401k plan
Non US-Based positions:
- Location Dependent
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Strategic Finance Lead
Job Description
Better Money
Strike is the Bitcoin company. With Strike, you can buy and sell bitcoin, pay bills, and borrow against your holdings. From individuals to businesses, Strike is purpose-built for every step of the Bitcoin journey. Available in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Strike is building a better financial system powered by Bitcoin. Bitcoin is better money. Strike is how you use it.
Role:
We believe money should move instantly, globally, and without friction. Our products power brokerage and Bitcoin-backed lending for individuals and businesses around the world.
We operate lean. We move quickly. We care deeply about capital discipline.
We are hiring a Strategic Finance Lead to help architect the financial engine behind our next stage of growth. This role sits at the center of capital allocation, pricing, long-range planning, and investor engagement.
This is not traditional FP&A. This is a role for someone who understands capital, risk, and scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the company’s financial architecture - long-range planning, multi-scenario modeling, and company-level decision support
- Drive financial strategy across brokerage and lending, with clear return and risk frameworks
- Lead lending and pricing economics, including loan book profitability, stress testing, and structured pricing strategy
- Define the operating and financial metrics that matter, building durable modeling infrastructure that scales with the business
- Support board and investor engagement, translating complex financial dynamics into clear, disciplined narratives
- Operate cross-functionally across Treasury, Accounting, Data, Product, and Partnerships to ensure financial rigor is embedded in how Strike builds and deploys capital
Requirements
- 7–12 years in investment banking, corporate finance, private credit, capital markets, fintech finance, or similarly rigorous environments
- Experience modeling credit or balance sheet-driven businesses
- Strong intuition for cost of capital, financial structuring, and capital efficiency
- Experience working cross-functionally with treasury, accounting, data, or product teams
- Experience supporting senior leaders and interacting with boards or investors
- Advanced financial modeling skills (multi-scenario, sensitivity, stress testing)
- Clear, concise communicator - able to turn complexity into insight
- High ownership mindset; comfortable building from zero
- Fintech, financial services, or crypto experience is a plus
Why This Role Matters
- Strike builds real financial products. Capital efficiency and risk discipline are not optional.
- This role helps ensure we scale with clarity, resilience, and strong financial foundations.
- If you want to build the financial backbone of a Bitcoin-native institution, we’d love to talk.
US-Based positions:
- Salary range: $180-198K
- Equity in a high-growth startup
- Health, dental, and vision insurance premium contributions; short & long-term disability insurance and basic life insurance
- Cell phone and internet reimbursement
- Flexible PTO, sick leave & parental leave
- Access to a company 401k plan
Non US-Based positions:
- Location Dependent
By clicking submit application below, you consent to our use and processing of your data as described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.