Engineering Lead; Rust​/C+ +, Trading Technologies

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and maintain scalable backend systems, services, and APIs that power our global exchange platform.
• Help shape and execute the long‑term technical vision for the scalability, reliability, and performance of our backend infrastructure.
• Design highly available, fault‑tolerant services capable of handling significant fluctuations in traffic and trading volume.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and drive performance optimization initiatives across the platform.
• Write clean, efficient, secure, and maintainable code with a strong focus on reliability and operational excellence.
• Contribute to the continued growth and evolution of our automated testing and quality assurance frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to solve complex technical and business challenges.
• Provide technical mentorship, conduct code reviews, and champion engineering best practices across the team.
• Act as a technical leader within the organization, influencing architecture, development standards, and engineering culture.
• As the team and organization continue to scale, take on increasing leadership responsibilities with a clear path toward future people management and team leadership.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with professional experience in Rust, C, C++, or other high‑performance compiled languages.
• Hands‑on experience with Rust is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to design and implement robust, efficient, reliable, and maintainable systems.
• Experience developing high‑performance, concurrent, and multi‑threaded applications.
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills with the ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering direction.
• Experience leading projects, driving technical initiatives, or building and scaling engineering teams is a strong advantage.
• Track record of successfully deploying, operating, and supporting software in production environments.
• Solid understanding of Linux‑based systems and development environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing, operating, or scaling production database systems including Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, and/or Mongo
  
  DB is a strong plus.
• Experience building systems with stringent security, reliability, compliance, or financial correctness requirements is highly desirable.
• Experience in trading systems, financial technology, cryptocurrency, or other low‑latency, high‑throughput environments is a plus.