Staff Engineer – Variational, Rust

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🕒 May 18

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2019

We partner with disruptive organizations to help identify and attract talent. A boutique recruitment agency that focuses on blockchain and web3. We enjoy networking with Web3 and decentralization enthusiasts and help them find their place in the decentralized world.

📋 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).