Backend Engineer (HFT / Low-Latency Systems)
Pod Network is a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for fair, high-performance global markets. It provides MEV-free batch auctions, on-chain market primitives, EVM compatibility, and live 24/7 perpetual futures.
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About Pod Network
Pod Network operates a high-performance Layer-1 network designed for fair, global markets. Its streaming, leaderless architecture supports transaction finality in under 150 milliseconds and throughput exceeding 300,000 transactions per second. The network includes fully on-chain order book, matching, liquidation, and oracle primitives, with Ethereum-compatible interfaces for developers. Pod serves developers building markets and traders using spot, perpetual, options, prediction, and other on-chain markets.
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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
