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Talent Partner for decentralized organizations and projects that are building Web3.
Staff Engineer – Variational, Rust
Location
Switzerland
Posted
64 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Engineer – Variational, Rust
decircle
• 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
Job Requirements
- 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).
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