Backend Developer (Rust)

G2i Inc.Remote - Europe$176k – $211k1mo ago

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Requirements

Salary: €150,000–€180,000 (or equivalent)*
5+ years of professional experience building backend systems with a strong focus on performance and reliability.
Proficiency in Rust (or equivalent systems programming) for backend service development.
Practical experience with messaging / streaming systems such as Redis Streams, Kafka, or similar.
Deep understanding of databases under high concurrency and techniques to mitigate contention, scale reads/writes, and ensure consistency.
Experience with event-driven architectures and building asynchronous, distributed systems.
Comfortable building and scaling systems that handle 1,000+ executions/sec today with design foresight for 10×–100× future growth.
Background in trading systems, exchanges, market infrastructure, or related areas.
Experience with financial markets concepts such as order books, matching engines, reconciliation and risk systems.
Familiarity with blockchain / decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols or similar high-performance distributed systems.

Design, implement, and maintain backend services for high-performance trading systems and market infrastructure.
Build messaging and streaming systems powering real-time data flows and order execution (e.g., Redis Streams, Kafka, or similar).
Develop robust event-driven systems to support concurrency at scale and consistent execution semantics under heavy load.
Optimize database schemas and access patterns for extremely high concurrency and low-latency performance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable and fault-tolerant backend architecture.
Monitor, profile, and tune services to meet performance SLAs in production.
Contribute to architectural discussions and drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and scalability.

Build and scale core infrastructure for the next frontier of decentralized trading.
Work with a global team of experts in high-performance systems and financial infrastructure.
Competitive compensation and full remote flexibility.
Impactful work — contributions go directly into protocol and platform performance.