Rust Developer (DeFi Infrastructure)

FastForward Trading is a market making firm specialized in digital assets. We trade and provide liquidity on leading exchanges via spot and derivatives markets

What you’re going to do

• Design, develop, test and maintain various modules of a DeFi trading infrastructure that processes terabytes of on-chain and off-chain market data and produces hundreds of thousands of trades every day

• Implement and optimize MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) capture mechanisms

• Work in a small team of experienced DeFi and quantitative trading engineers

• Collaborate closely with business-related teams (Quantitative Research, DeFi Strategy, Trade Analytics, Risk Management, etc.)

• Scale the trading system by integrating various DeFi protocols (AMMs) and existing CEX-focused infrastructure

• Have a direct impact on the growth of the company's DeFi trading capabilities

Requirements

• Higher education in computer science, or related technical fields

• At least 5 years of commercial programming experience with 2+ years specifically in Rust

• Expert-level Rust knowledge including advanced features (unsafe code when necessary)

• Experience with Rust's ecosystem: tokio, serde, reqwest, etc.

• Detailed understanding of high performance low latency systems

• Experience with asynchronous programming and concurrent systems in Rust

• Proficiency with profiling tools

• Experience with Rust testing framework

• Excellent knowledge of classical algorithms and data structures

• UNIX / Linux proficiency

• Git version control

• Strong understanding of blockchain fundamentals and consensus mechanisms

• Knowledge of AMM DeFi protocols: CPMM and CLMM

• Experience with Anchor smart contract development and auditing

• Contributions to open-source DeFi or blockchain projects is a plus

Working conditions

• Remote work from anywhere in the world or from office in Moscow

• A powerful workstation and a laptop

• Flexible work schedule available

• Competitive salary in $ / ₽ / crypto

• Performance-based bonus system

• Coffee, snacks and drinks

• Conference attendance and continued learning budget

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