Senior Backend Engineer, Rust/C++

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🕒 February 15

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Startup Talent

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

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Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Startup Talent is a recruitment company specializing in connecting employers with top talent across various industries. They focus on helping businesses build solid teams and achieve their recruitment goals by attracting relevant applicants and retaining staff. Startup Talent emphasizes their expertise in sectors like IT, technology, and sales, providing customized staffing solutions that suit a variety of work patterns and employment types.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain the core backend systems that power the company's DeX and Network • Define the high-level structure of the backend systems, the data flow, and interactions between the various components of the backend stack • Ensure the architectural design addresses reliability, high availability and performance requirements • Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect backend systems and APIs from security threats • Define the strategy for data storage, including selection of databases • Develop and execute a comprehensive testing strategy including unit, integration, security, load and performance testing • Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in backend development and architecture • Clearly document the architectural design and collaborate with software engineers to implement the design effectively • Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and enforce coding standards

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer with experience working in financial services industry • 6+ years of experience with Rust and/or C++ building highly scalable webservices • Mastery of asynchronous programming and advanced concurrency patterns • Emphasis on thread safety and lock-free data structures • 6+ years of experience designing and maintaining relational databases like PosgreSQL • 4+ years of experience with messaging and low latency persistence like Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ or others • Experience in building and maintaining high-availability systems that have handled significant transaction volumes in a Web3 and trading environment • Experience with low-level network programming, including asynchronous I/O, direct socket programming, and familiarity with Linux kernel optimizations • Experience in fine-tuning latency-sensitive components, particularly in trading systems like order matching engines and risk engines • Strong proficiency in securing and hardening backend systems and APIs against evolving security threats • Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies • Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO • Health Insurance • Major industry conferences and events covered • Remote-first • Equity by way of tokens on top of salary