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Movement

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11 - 50 employees

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Fintech

Movement is a settlement and yield layer focused on emerging markets that enables fast, institutional-grade settlement and yield for digital assets and stablecoins. Built on Move (the language Meta developed for financial assets), Movement provides infrastructure primitives — bridge, stake, faucet, explorer — to power remittances and cross-border liquidity, offering sub-second settlement and yield opportunities on assets like USDC, USDT, BTC and tokenized gold. The company highlights KYC-verified users (300K+), reach across 160+ countries, TVL of $4. 22M, and emphasizes solving cross-border settlement and liquidity frictions.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and optimize core protocol components, including: • - Consensus mechanisms • - State synchronization and replication • - Mempool and transaction propagation • Build high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems in Rust • Improve system throughput, reliability, and latency at scale • Partner with research and product teams to iterate protocol designs • Debug and resolve complex distributed systems challenges in live environments • Contribute to engineering standards for testing, benchmarks, and safe releases

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience as a Rust generalist with a focus on systems programming • Strong background in distributed systems (consensus, replication, networking, async primitives) and design tradeoffs • Experience building or operating production infrastructure or protocol software • Excellent understanding of: • - Asynchronous concurrency and performance optimization • - Network protocols and peer-to-peer systems • - Design tradeoffs in decentralized systems • - Rigorous approach to correctness, testing, and reliability • Experience with blockchain protocols or consensus engines (preferred) • Exposure to EVM or MoveVM ecosystem (preferred) • Background in high-throughput, low-latency systems (preferred) • Familiarity with cryptographic primitives used in consensus/security (preferred) • Prior work in decentralized or open-source protocol communities (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with meaningful upside • A culture that values technical excellence, clarity, and extreme ownership • Opportunity to impact real-world adoption of decentralized financial system