Staff/Principal Backend Engineer - HFT/Ultra Low Latency
Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.
As an engineer at Superstate, you'll play a pivotal role in building ultra-low latency trading infrastructure for tokenized assets. You'll work on high-performance systems that bridge traditional HFT techniques with blockchain technology, designing the engines, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient.
- Build ultra-low latency trading engines and execution systems in Rust
- Design and implement high-performance order matching and routing systems
- Optimize system architecture for microsecond-level latency requirements
- Build out APIs and integrations with exchanges and liquidity providers
- Lead performance profiling, benchmarking, and optimization efforts
- Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
- Teach and mentor other engineers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 9+ years of professional engineering experience
- Expert-level Rust experience with focus on zero-copy operations, lock-free programming, and memory optimization
- Deep experience building ultra-low latency trading systems (HFT/high-frequency trading)
- Deep understanding of network protocols, kernel bypass techniques, and hardware acceleration
- Proven track record optimizing for sub-millisecond latencies in production trading environments
- Experience with CPU pinning and low-level performance tuning
- Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization
- Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset
- FPGA programming or hardware acceleration
- Market data feed handlers and order management systems
- Pulumi or Terraform
- AWS - RDS, EC2, ECS, Kubernetes
- Cloudflare
- Postgres
- Docker
- Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem
- Competitive compensation
- Equity ownership
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.
Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.
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