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Principal Founding Backend Engineer

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£100K - £200K
London
United Kingdom🇬🇧

Join a pioneering team to build the first fully decentralized on-chain perpetuals exchange. As a founding engineer, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the project, architecting backend systems, and ensuring system performance and reliability. This is a unique opportunity to make history in decentralized finance (DeFi).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Architect and implement backend systems.
  • Ensure end-to-end system performance.
  • Mentor and lead engineering best practices.

Requirements

  • You have significant experience architecting secure production backend systems at scale on cloud infrastructure, involving the following components:
    • Data Pipeline Tools
    • Relational, In-Memory, and Time-series Databases
    • Notification Systems
    • Virtualization
  • You have experience:
    • Shipping product and writing production grade code.
    • Working with Rust, Go, or other high performance languages suitable for demanding services realization.
    • With Websocket architecture and implementation.

Location:

  • London, United Kingdom
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation is an option for the right candidate

Why Join:

  • Shape a groundbreaking DeFi project.
  • Be part of an innovative founding team.

Send your resume to decentralized.exchange@rustjobs.dev

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