Rust Engineer

You’ll take ownership of critical backend systems that support real-time trading, risk management and execution across multiple venues.

• Risk & liquidation engines: Develop systems that manage exposure, optimise capital efficiency and respond to rapidly changing market conditions.
• Blockchain state machines: Design and implement the systems underpinning trading, settlement and risk operations.
• Distributed systems: Build asynchronous services that maintain consistent state using coordination, voting and consensus mechanisms.
• Real-time market data: Process high-throughput event streams, manage WebSocket connections and coordinate time-sensitive actions across trading venues.
• High-performance APIs: Develop REST and WebSocket APIs designed for millisecond-level response times.
• Performance engineering: Profile, debug and optimise production Rust systems, making informed decisions around concurrency, memory allocation and throughput.

• 2-4 years of backend software engineering experience.
• Production experience with Rust is a must and a strong understanding of ownership, lifetimes and asynchronous programming.
• Solid systems knowledge across networking, databases, concurrency and performance optimisation.
• Experience building asynchronous services; familiarity with Tokio is particularly relevant.
• Experience developing REST or WebSocket APIs and working with distributed systems.
• A performance-driven mindset and an interest in building reliable, latency-sensitive infrastructure.
• Comfort deploying and debugging production services, with experience using Docker and monitoring tools.
• The ability to collaborate closely with a small, technically focused team.

Meaningful engineering ownership: Work directly on the core systems that power trading, risk and execution rather than peripheral product features.

A well-funded startup: Join a business that has raised over $15M and is investing in building its trading platform and engineering team.

Experienced founders: Learn from leaders with backgrounds in exchange execution technology and high-frequency crypto trading.

Complex technical challenges: Work with production Rust, asynchronous systems, blockchain infrastructure and high-throughput market data, where engineering decisions have a direct impact on performance.

Competitive package: $185,000-$300,000 base salary, plus equity, depending on experience and qualifications.

Small, collaborative team: Work closely with engineers and founders, with the opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction as the business grows.

Location & Working Arrangements

• Working model: Fully in-office, five days per week.
• Compensation: $185,000-$300,000 base salary plus equity.