Backend Engineer (HFT / Low-Latency Systems)
Skills
About the Role
You will design and implement latency-critical components of the runtime and order book engine, and optimize network pipelines, serialization, and state access for deterministic sub-millisecond performance. You will contribute protocol primitives for timestamped execution and atomic batch auctions and collaborate with researchers on incentive design and cross-domain settlement models. You will profile and tune concurrency and networking subsystems to push systems toward ultra-low-latency determinism.
Requirements
- Experience building or optimizing HFT systems, exchange matching engines, or low-latency trading infrastructure
- Strong systems programming background in Rust, C++, or Go
- Deep understanding of concurrency, networking, and performance profiling
- Experience with blockchains, consensus, or distributed systems (bonus)
Responsibilities
- Design and implement latency-critical components of the L1 and order book engine
- Optimize network pipelines, serialization, and state access for deterministic performance
- Contribute protocol primitives for timestamped execution and atomic batch auctions
- Collaborate with researchers on incentive design and cross-domain settlement models
Benefits
- Travel opportunities
- Thought leadership visibility in the crypto community