Early stage blockchain business builder and incubator from Cumberland & DRW
Software Engineer, Backend
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
142 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer, Backend
Cumberland Labs
• Build core exchange logic: markets, users, collateral, fees, order routing • Implement professional liquidity sources, on-chain matching, margining, liquidation, and risk enforcement • Help design the end-to-end architecture of a perpetuals exchange • Ensure on-chain and off-chain systems operate as a cohesive, low-latency stack • Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and compute efficiency • Write thorough tests and maintain clear, living documentation • Improve developer tooling and onboarding experience • Design, implement, and deploy production-grade Solana smart contracts in Rust
Job Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong Rust proficiency (production experience preferred) or willingness to learn
- Strong backend fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, async systems)
- Experience with low-latency or performance-sensitive systems
- Familiarity with DeFi, trading systems, or derivatives
- Ownership mindset and comfort working in an early-stage environment
- Strong English communication skills
- Bonus Points **
- Solana runtime optimizations and CU profiling
- Previous work experience with matching engines, order books, or execution systems
- Perpetuals, margin trading, funding rates, or ADL
- Market-making or trading infrastructure experience**
Benefits
- No bureaucracy — just fast shipping and real impact
- High ownership and real impact from day one
- Competitive base + meaningful token/equity upside. Early team members receive ownership aligned with long-term protocol success.
- Fully remote
- IRL meetups and company offsites
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