Software Engineer Backend

You will design, build, test, and deploy the core on-chain and backend systems for a perpetual exchange. You will develop exchange logic for markets, users, collateral, fees, and order routing; implement liquidity, matching, margining, liquidation, and risk systems; and optimize the stack for low latency, throughput, and compute efficiency. You will also improve developer tooling and documentation and deploy production-grade Solana smart contracts in Rust.

Responsibilities

• Build core exchange logic for markets, users, collateral, fees, and order routing
• Implement liquidity sources, on-chain matching, margining, liquidation, and risk enforcement
• Help design the end-to-end architecture of a perpetuals exchange
• Ensure on-chain and off-chain systems operate as a cohesive low-latency stack
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and compute efficiency
• Write thorough tests and maintain living documentation
• Improve developer tooling and onboarding
• Design, implement, and deploy production-grade Solana smart contracts in Rust

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Rust proficiency or willingness to learn Rust
• Backend fundamentals including APIs, distributed systems, and async systems
• Experience with low-latency or performance-sensitive systems
• Familiarity with DeFi, trading systems, or derivatives
• English communication skills

Benefits

• Token and equity upside
• Ownership aligned with long-term protocol success
• Fully remote work
• IRL meetups and company offsites