Backend Engineer

We write a lot of high-performance networking and exchange code as well as classical distributed and cryptographic systems. You would be a core contributor helping design, architect, implement, and optimize core features and product components.

• 4+ years backend engineering experience • Very strong systems background - you could pick an exchange, a blockchain, or a similarly complex system and walk a non-technical person through how it works at the lowest level • Low-level systems programming - Rust familiarity • You've built high-performance networked systems - trading infrastructure, exchanges, or comparable • Distributed systems fundamentals - replication, fault tolerance, adversarial correctness

• Trading or exchange domain experience • Kernel / network-stack experience • TEEs (SGX, Nitro Enclaves, etc.) • Applied cryptography / math background • Crypto & blockchain familiarity - light clients, smart contracts, onchain settlement

• Design, implement, and optimize core exchange components - matching, risk, settlement, networking • Harden the system for production - performance, testing, reliability • Contribute to the new financial primitives and market mechanisms we're designing

Applicants must be as passionate about building the next generation of financial markets as we are. We don't care if that's because you love hard problems, winning, or have an island on your bucket list. Practically this means you'll hop on an international flight with a few days notice, work a 120 hour week, or call in every personal favour you have if it's necessary for us to succeed. We value work life balance but there's a work component to it.

• Work on unique, challenging problems with a fast moving team pushing the boundaries of market mechanics and trustless finance • Fully remote or sponsored relocation to Mexico City • Travel to neat destinations for conferences and offsites • Healthcare, dental, vision, etc • Generous PTO • Visa and immigration support • Unlimited hardware budget • Company merch