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

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).

Staff Engineer – Variational, Rust

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