Senior Rust Developer - DeFi Infrastructure

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What you’re going to do

• Design, develop, test and maintain various modules of a DeFi trading infrastructure that processes terabytes of on-chain and off-chain market data and produces hundreds of thousands of trades every day
• Implement and optimize MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) capture mechanisms
• Work in a small team of experienced DeFi and quantitative trading engineers
• Collaborate closely with business-related teams (Quantitative Research, DeFi Strategy, Trade Analytics, Risk Management, etc.)
• Scale the trading system by integrating various DeFi protocols (AMMs) and existing CEX-focused infrastructure
• Have a direct impact on the growth of the company's DeFi trading capabilities

The skillset required

Core Technical Skills:

• Higher education in computer science, or related technical fields
• At least 5 years of commercial programming experience with 2+ years specifically in Rust
• Expert-level Rust knowledge including advanced features (unsafe code when necessary)
• Experience with Rust's ecosystem: tokio, serde, reqwest, etc.
• Detailed understanding of high performance low latency systems
• Experience with asynchronous programming and concurrent systems in Rust
• Proficiency with profiling tools
• Experience with Rust testing framework
• Excellent knowledge of classical algorithms and data structures
• UNIX / Linux proficiency
• Git version control

DeFi & Blockchain Specific:

• Strong understanding of blockchain fundamentals and consensus mechanisms
• Knowledge of AMM DeFi protocols: CPMM and CLMM
• Experience with Anchor smart contract development and auditing
• Contributions to open-source DeFi or blockchain projects is a plus
  

Working conditions

• Remote work from anywhere in the world or from office in Moscow
• A powerful workstation and a laptop
• Flexible work schedule available
• Competitive salary in $ / ₽ / crypto
• Performance-based bonus system
• Coffee, snacks and drinks
• Conference attendance and continued learning budget