• 3+ years of experience as a systems engineer who has designed and operated production services with real traffic, ideally in finance, trading, or blockchain environments.
• A deep understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and network architecture — you think in terms of latency, throughput, and fault tolerance.
• Fluent in at least one strongly-typed backend language (Rust, Go or C++) and comfortable working across frameworks, APIs, and infrastructure.
• An interest in bitcoin, blockchains and onchain finance.
• Prior experience using stablecoins and/or bitcoin in your daily life.
• Prior experience building low-latency systems for trading.