Staff Engineer – Variational, Rust

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🕒 May 18

🇨🇭 Switzerland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 23%

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decircle

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2019

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Logistics • Consulting

Decircle is a talent partner specializing in staffing and recruiting for decentralized organizations and projects related to Web3. As a boutique recruitment agency, Decircle focuses on identifying and attracting talent in the blockchain and Web3 sectors, fostering connections within the community of decentralization enthusiasts and guiding them in finding their roles in the evolving decentralized landscape.

📋 Description

• Designing and building backend systems for high-frequency trading, derivatives settlement infrastructure, and client-facing fullstack applications • Architecting distributed systems (consistency protocols, multi-service communication, asynchronous queues, real-time processing) • Owning database design and optimization across relational, time-series, flat-file, and OLAP systems • Building and maintaining production infrastructure (CI/CD, containerized deployments, monitoring, tracing, alerting) • Implementing backend security (JWT authentication, WAF configuration, least-privilege systems) • Managing infrastructure as code using Terraform

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience in trading platforms, distributed systems, or similar domains • Strong experience in Rust (preferred), C++, or similar systems languages • Go/Java acceptable only with deep distributed systems background (not dev tooling focused) • Strong expertise in distributed systems and database design • Experience with production infrastructure: Docker / Kubernetes Terraform or AWS CDK CI/CD pipelines Monitoring and alerting systems • Solid software engineering background (L5+ minimum, L6 strongly preferred) with ownership of high-impact systems • Bonus: Experience with trading platforms, dashboards, or DeFi • Knowledge of market making, HFT, or similar domains • Rust proficiency (if coming from C++/Go) • Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis/Memcached • Crypto/Web3 experience (nice to have, not required).