Senior Backend Engineer (Rust)

What you will do

• Develop new functionality for both our off-chain services (optimising transaction execution, scaling order throughput, increasing protocol decentralization) as well as our APIs (price estimation & order placement, real-time blockchain state monitoring, client communication channels)
• While your focus will be writing concurrent backend systems in Rust, you will also interact with our Smart Contracts written in Solidity and develop your understanding of auction mechanisms and Decentralized Finance.
• Work closely with researchers and product managers to ship features and come up with new solutions for challenging technological problems
• Deliver high-quality code for features from concept until production (including state-of-the-art monitoring of our production systems)
• Give thoughtful and in-depth code reviews of your colleagues’ contributions to our open source codebase

Our Tech Stack

• Product Code: Rust, Tokio, Cargo, Git
• Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana

Who you are

• You have 3+ years of experience with distributed systems engineering, preferably in Rust (Go, C++, Java, or similar)
• You have excellent computer science, programming, and algorithmic skills
• You care deeply about the quality and readability of your code
• You proactively give technical direction such as improving performance, preventing issues, data usage, refactoring the codebase
• You are a team player, a strong communicator, and love to share your knowledge with others
• You collaborate effectively with a remote-first team on a large, open-source codebase

It’s a plus if you bring:

• Understanding of the Ethereum blockchain and ecosystem, general finance and/or game theory, and mechanism design.
• Experience with architecting complex software systems

What we can offer you

• Flexible work environment: join one of our hubs in Berlin or Lisbon or work remotely with the option of joining a local coworking space
• Regular trips to reunite with the rest of the team
• Conference budget to keep up to date with the developments of the ecosystem
• Learning budget to support your higher ambitions
• Impact: you are joining a startup where you can make a huge difference. Your work matters!

We look forward to your application!