Design and develop protocol-level components, such as state transition logic, consensus, validator interaction, and transaction processing pipelines.
Implement integration with oracles, bridges, and external data providers, ensuring correctness and resilience in adversarial conditions.
Optimize for low-latency execution, concurrency, and gas efficiency.
Conduct benchmarking and stress testing to identify and address potential performance/throughput bottlenecks.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive suite of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code reliability and functionality.
Requirements
5+ years of systems programming experience, with 3+ years in Rust.
Proven track record building trading platforms, execution engines, or exchanges (DEX or centralized), or Contributions to Rust-based L1 protocol projects (e.g., Solana, Cosmos SDK, Substrate).
Deep understanding of distributed computing principles, including consensus algorithms, peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, and high-performance data structures.
Deep knowledge of decentralized trading models (on-chain order books, AMMs, hybrid architectures).
Ability to design and implement complex, production-grade systems independently.