Ostium Labs develops a decentralized perpetuals trading protocol that lets users trade global market assets directly from a self-custodial wallet.
Markets haven’t changed in decades. They still run on opaque brokers, black-box pricing, and systems where someone else decides whether you get your money back. We’re rebuilding the rails - transparent, verifiable, auditable by design.We’re a small, global crew - New York, London, Singapore - and every time zone in between. Global markets don’t sleep, neither do we.About Ostium.We founded Ostium with a simple mission:Anyone with a digital wallet should be able to trade stocks, commodities, currencies, and crypto in one place, with full transparency.This started in a hacker house, running arbitrage on offshore CFD brokers - until they froze our accounts and withheld our deposits. We learned the hard truth: their terms meant nothing.The Market We're Going After.CFDs are the world’s largest retail derivatives market - over $10T monthly volume across every major asset class - but they're built on black-box execution, custodial discretion, and antiquated tech. We’re turning that system on its head.Ostium is building a decentralized perpetuals protocol for real-world markets, with onchain transparency replacing blind trust. Spreads, liquidations, and collateral are visible to everyone. No brokers. No freezes. No hidden spreads.Open Positions (5) Filters: Reset filtersDepartmentAll DepartmentsEngineering (3)GTM (1)Operations (1)Employment TypeAll Employment TypesFull time (5)LocationAll LocationsDelhi, India (2)EU (1)Miami (2)New York (3)Portugal (1)Location TypeAll Location TypesHybrid (1)On-site (1)Remote (3)No filters appliedEngineeringQA EngineerEngineering • Delhi, India; Miami; New York • Full time • RemoteQuantitative Trading AnalystEngineering • Portugal • Full time • RemoteSDE2Engineering • Delhi, India • Full time • RemoteGTMGrowth Marketing LeadGTM • New York; EU; Miami • Full time • HybridOperationsExecutive Assistant & Office ManagerOperations • New York • Full time • On-site$70K – $150KReal Traction.Over 25,000 crypto-native traders have used Ostium to access traditional markets without off-ramping to opaque brokers. It’s working: 95% of our open interest is in stocks, commodities and FX. Our thesis is backed by $45B+ in volume and $20M+ in fees generated to date.When gold hit all-time highs in February, Ostium captured ~50% of onchain gold OI - we were the only venue where onchain traders could get predictable liquidity and size.We’re backed by General Catalyst, Jump, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute, Meltem Demirors, many of our earliest users are now investors, and some even became employees! How We Work?We’re usually the last ones in our co-working space: not to banter, but because we care.Macro is at our core: our ears are always perked to deliver the best to our traders when markets move.Data drives every decision: a strong thesis paired with customer feedback decides what ships.We value strong opinions, loosely heldWe hire people who love markets and fight for better ones.Why Ostium? Why Now?This is a $100B opportunity to replace a system that’s predatory and archaic. We’re the first to build the right architecture for it.We have PMF with power traders + backing from the best in finance and crypto.Now we scale, aggressively.Join Us.If you’re ambitious enough to dismantle the status quo and build the protocol traders deserve, we want to talk.