Hyperliquid
AI

Backend Engineer

Hyperliquid · Singapore · $105k - $150k

Actively hiring Posted over 1 year ago

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and optimize the consensus algorithm, database, and trading APIs to run a decentralized onchain order book with hundreds of thousands of transactions per second
  • Design and implement financial and trading primitives on the Hyperliquid L1
  • Collaborate with Frontend, Product, and Design to ship new user features

Preferred qualifications

  • HFT systems experience

About the company

  • Very strong systems engineering ability: writing modular, maintainable code within a complex codebase, where correctness is critical
  • Interest in performance optimization
  • Strong first principles thinker
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication skills
  • Competitive programming experience (e.g., Codeforces, IOI, ACM-ICPC) or similar level of programming ability
  • Experience with Rust

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Backend Engineer Rust Defi Crypto Finance
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