Director of Engineering
Nexus is developing a Layer 1 blockchain designed to function as a 'world supercomputer' for the AI era. By leveraging a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM), Nexus aims to provide a high-performance, scalable, and verifiable compute platform. Users can contribute their device's idle compute power to the network and earn rewards, facilitating mass adoption. The project is focused on building infrastructure for autonomous applications and agentic intelligence.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Nexus Laboratories, Inc.
Nexus is a technology company building infrastructure for the AI era. Their core products include the Nexus Layer 1, a 100% EVM-compatible blockchain designed to function as a world supercomputer by concentrating global compute power. This is powered by the Nexus zkVM, a general-purpose virtual machine that enables fast, verifiable compute at a large scale, compatible with languages like Rust, Go, and C++. Nexus also operates the Nexus Verifiable AI Lab, an R&D division focused on the intersection of AI and zero-knowledge proofs, exploring areas like verifiable AI, AI for verification, economic AI agents, and AI-driven economic systems. They encourage participation through their Testnet, where users can contribute their device's idle compute power to earn rewards and help build the network. Nexus targets developers, researchers, validators, and collaborators looking to build autonomous applications and agentic intelligence on their platform.
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About the Role
You will own the Nexus Exchange engineering end to end, including architecture, matching, risk, settlement, indexing, storage, APIs, oracles, and infrastructure. You will lead the engineering organization, manage roadmaps and resourcing, drive product and customer outcomes, improve engineering productivity, establish quality practices, mentor senior engineers and tech leads, and manage a distributed workforce.
Requirements
- 8+ years building production software
- 2+ years in an engineering leadership capacity
- Experience leading engineering organizations
- High-throughput and low-latency systems experience
- Strong command of concurrent and parallel systems
- Fluency with Rust, Go, Next.js/TypeScript or Node, and GCP
- Experience making correctness, latency, throughput, and operability trade-offs
- Exchange, trading-system, or comparable transaction-processing architecture experience
- Matching, risk, and settlement correctness experience
- Market data, indexing, and cold storage experience
- API, SDK, and CLI experience
- Oracle design experience
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Meaningful US Pacific time overlap
Responsibilities
- Own architecture across the Exchange domain and write production code in high-leverage system components
- Build the matching engine, risk engine, settlement, data indexing, cold data storage, API, CLI, SDK, oracle, and underlying infrastructure
- Lead the engineering organization and manage timelines, roadmaps, and resourcing
- Drive product and customer outcomes and high-frequency iteration
- Improve organizational productivity and efficiency
- Own automation of engineering processes, including agent infrastructure, logging, telemetry, observability, and self-improvement loops
- Design team structures and incentives with the CEO and executive team
- Manage an international distributed workforce
- Establish telemetry, observability, automated testing, code review, on-call, and incident response standards
- Grow individual contributors and technology leads
- Communicate through design documents, RFCs, and post-mortems
