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AJ-6197 Senior Recently added

Rust Backend Developer

Bulgaria
5 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed asynchronous Rust and Tokio services for Solana MEV trading, including arbitrage, liquidation, Jito submission, and bundle lifecycle tracking. Also isolated transaction signing and key-generation workflows behind a dedicated Rust API for custody-sensitive operations.

  • Built matching and pre-trade risk components
  • Used ClickHouse for market-data workloads
  • Implemented Kafka and NATS messaging
  • Profiled p95 and p99 latency
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WK-5976 Lead Recently added

Head of Quant Engineering

Spain
20 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Developed quantitative trading systems using Rust and C++, focusing on high-frequency trading algorithms. Implemented smart contracts for decentralized finance applications.

  • Built high-frequency trading algorithms
  • Developed DeFi smart contracts
  • Specialized in quantitative finance systems
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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Staff Trading Systems Engineer

France
8 years
Hybrid
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
RustTokioFIXPostgreSQLAWSKafkaRedisDocker
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GC-5338 Lead

Backend Lead

United Kingdom
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads backend architecture for a production trading platform handling real user funds, with single-writer state, idempotent workflows, atomic settlement, and fail-closed reliability controls. Builds low-latency Rust services using Tokio and Axum, including real-time gRPC and WebSocket data pipelines.

  • Normalized multi-source market data with freshness handling
  • Designed bounded-channel backpressure and workload-isolated job queues
  • Operated PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka, and Flink systems
  • Developed Solana programs for on-chain transaction workflows
RustTokioAxumTowerAsync programmingConcurrency
Interviewing now $130k-180k/yr
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JT-6966 Principal

Chief Product Officer

United Kingdom
18 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected electronic trading systems for FX and digital assets, including exchange connectivity, FPGA market-data adapters, trade capture, portfolio management, and risk controls. Also developed online machine-learning systems under extreme latency constraints and transactional platforms requiring extensive auditability and correctness.

  • Embedded Rust for performance-sensitive devices
  • OTC pricing and streaming infrastructure
  • PostgreSQL trade-booking database design
  • Mechanical-sympathy low-latency architecture
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Available in 3+ months £100k-150k/yr
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JE-5871 Senior

Protocol Engineer

Czech Republic
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built ultra-low-latency exchange gateways, real-time pricing and risk engines, and a Byzantine fault-tolerant blockchain from scratch in C. Current protocol work includes Solana lending logic and a real-time Rust liquidator using Anchor.

  • Implemented peer-to-peer networking over WireGuard
  • Developed non-blocking concurrent systems
  • Optimized CPU-to-GPU graphics workloads
  • Worked with video codecs and OpenGL
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BM-9587 Principal

Senior Quant Developer, Trading & Data Infrastructure

Slovenia
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and owned low-latency execution, market-data, simulation, and quantitative research infrastructure for multi-asset trading. Applied Rust and C++20 performance engineering across NUMA-aware optimization, lock-free queues, CPU affinity, IRQ tuning, binary feeds, FIX, and lossless gigabit packet capture.

  • CEX, DEX, and DeFi trading systems
  • MiFID II and PCI DSS exchange architecture
  • perf, VTune, and flame-graph profiling
  • Memory-cache and scheduler optimization
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SY-8681 Senior

Head of AI and Web3 Labs / Lead Fullstack Developer, AI and Web3

Kenya
7 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designs Rust services for latency-sensitive trading, signal generation, asynchronous networking, and Kafka- or RPC-driven distributed workflows. Security work covers wallet hardening, MPC/DKG signing, HSM and TEE integration, while product delivery spans backend, web, and mobile clients.

  • WebSocket market-data services
  • KDB+ financial data workflows
  • AI-agent prompt security
  • Solidity smart-contract integration
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WT-3063 Principal

Independent Systems Research & Consulting

Spain
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and implemented distributed systems for high-availability services using Rust and Python. Led teams in developing blockchain-based applications with a focus on smart contract security.

  • Optimized SQL databases for performance and scalability
  • Authored technical documentation for complex system architectures
  • Contributed to open-source distributed ledger projects
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WS-6692 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

Canada
12 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems for real-time trading, regulated payments, and firehose-scale data ingestion using functional Scala and concurrent streaming architectures. Has modernized legacy JVM platforms into independently deployable services and operated production workloads across public-cloud Kubernetes environments.

  • Akka-to-Pekko zero-downtime migration
  • Kafka and Kinesis event pipelines
  • Cats-Effect, FS2, and ZIO
  • PostgreSQL service backends
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SW-3518 Staff

Tech Lead, Backend

Armenia
7 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Builds payment and banking infrastructure spanning checkout, acquiring, recurring billing, refunds, fiscalization, and settlement workflows. Has designed production backend architectures around idempotent distributed processes, gRPC APIs, message brokers, and polyglot persistence across PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Redis, ClickHouse, and YDB.

  • Priced approximately 10,000 currencies and cryptocurrency tokens
  • Generated OpenAPI contracts and Go handlers from ASTs
  • Created shared libraries for persistent business-process state machines
  • Uses actor-model services with NATS and RabbitMQ
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Available in 2 weeks $110k-130k/yr
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NP-3616 Lead

Chief Technology Officer

Greece
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed privacy-focused financial systems spanning self-custody blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, and enterprise platforms. Applies fully homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, multiparty computation, and distributed key generation to production financial products while working across protocol and cloud-service layers.

  • Solana and Sui ecosystem development
  • Cosmos SDK and Substrate protocols
  • Circom and ZoKrates circuit tooling
  • Ethereum smart-contract engineering
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AS-2078 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

Bangladesh
11 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built real-time financial-market visualization systems using ag-Grid, D3.js, Apache ECharts, Canvas, and Solid.js, including a redesigned data blotter that improved rendering speed by 66 percent. Developed frontend architecture for high-volume market data and automated data collection workflows.

  • Canvas-based chart rendering
  • D3.js data visualization
  • PhantomJS scraping automation
  • Knockout.js MVVM architecture
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Available in 2 weeks $80k-140k/yr
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JU-7683 Lead

Technical Lead

Indonesia
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads a low-latency crypto-derivatives market-making platform covering market data, algorithmic execution, matching, risk, order management, portfolio management, and real-time pricing. Uses Rust, C++, Go, KDB+, QuestDB, Redpanda, ZeroMQ, FlatBuffers, and Kubernetes for performance-sensitive trading infrastructure.

  • Regulated exchange integration
  • Zenoh real-time transport
  • QuestDB time-series workloads
  • KDB+ market-data analytics
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WW-1455 Lead

Founder & Backend Architect

India
13 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and delivered a multi-tenant SaaS platform end to end, covering architecture, backend services, testing, cloud deployment, and production operations. Builds event-driven microservices and state-machine workflows for banking, payments, supply-chain, and enterprise integration systems, with measured 45% throughput improvement and 30% lower API latency.

  • Rust and Go asynchronous service development
  • REST API and enterprise integration architecture
  • Database refactoring for high-volume workloads
  • Cloud-native deployment and production hyper-care
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