Build and maintain low-latency, robust integrations with centralized and decentralized exchanges (CEXs/DEXs), with a strong focus on perpetual futures markets
Develop and maintain high-performance asynchronous Rust services handling: real-time market data ingestion; order execution; position and funding tracking; reconciliation and risk-sensitive workflows
Contribute to internal trading logic, analytics, or execution optimization systems over time
Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and reliability in a perps trading environment
Contribute to multi-month infrastructure upgrades, including SDK-level improvements
Maintain and improve existing integration pipelines and deployment workflows
Collaborate closely with strategy developers and trading infrastructure teams to support internal tooling, trading bots, and latency-sensitive services
Contribute to internal trading logic, analytics, or execution optimization systems over time

Minimum of 5 years of experience of successfully building & maintaining complex backend systems (deep tech products, backend systems with deep business logic, algorithms, financial applications, etc.)
Strong professional experience in Rust (must-have), with a proven track record of writing performant, clean, and maintainable asynchronous code
Solid experience with async programming paradigms (e.g., tokio, async-std)
Strong systems programming mindset and understanding of performance optimization
Familiarity with PostgreSQL and relational database performance considerations
Attention to detail when working with third-party APIs, order lifecycle management, reconciliation logic, and failure handling
Understanding of exchange mechanics: order books, market data feeds, funding rates, liquidation logic, and trading flows
Trading experience (especially in derivatives or perpetual futures markets) is a major plus
Exposure to quantitative finance, derivatives mechanics, or stochastic calculus is a plus
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment with a high bar for quality
Basic statistics knowledge
Proficiency in English.

Possibility to participate at worlds crypto events, with a very real and tangible impact on many crypto markets across the world
Fast-moving, challenging, and unique business problems
Competitive salary
Flexible working hours, casual work attire and startup atmosphere
Learning & Development budget 3000 EUR a year
Benefits that you can combine yourself – free food, bolt taxi, Sports, Spa & Wellness etc.

Senior Software Engineer – Perps Trading Team

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