Experienced Technical Architect needed for a contract role, ensuring compliance with GDS standards in the UK. Overseeing architectural strategy, platform design, and integration within delivery teams.
About the role
- Rust Engineer designing backend systems for blockchain projects at Staking Facilities. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to evolve capital markets with decentralized finance solutions.
Responsibilities
- You’ll work as the first dedicated Engineer in this new venture.
- Expect deep technical challenges, real ownership, and the thrill of helping define how capital markets evolve on-chain within one of Europe’s most respected blockchain companies.
- Design and implement backend services in Rust, optimized for throughput, reliability, and low latency
- Build systems that connect on-chain and off-chain components, from smart contract interactions to market data ingestion and execution logic
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure and validator teams to leverage bare-metal performance and low-latency access to blockchain networks
- Work with live trading data and performance monitoring tools to profile, test, and tune production systems
- Contribute to architecture design sessions, helping define how we scale a multi-chain platform
- Collaborate with experienced engineers across Staking Facilities to extend node infrastructure and on-chain APIs
- Shape technical direction, influence tooling and processes, and grow with the project as it scales
Requirements
- Proficient in Rust, with experience writing safe, performant, and maintainable code
- You’re excited about Web3, decentralized finance, and the emerging internet of capital markets.
- Comfortable working independently and taking ownership in an early-stage setup
- Curious and self-motivated, you enjoy learning new systems, exploring blockchain tech, and tinkering with complex problems
- Based in Europe or nearby time zones (CET overlap)
- Fluent in English, with strong communication and collaboration skills
- Familiar with concepts like order books, limit orders, and exchange mechanics, or eager to learn
- Existing experience with smart contracts, on-chain transactions would be ideal
Benefits
- Building from almost 0 within a proven, established blockchain company
- Work directly with senior engineers and Defi professionals on cutting-edge challenges
- Excellent salary plus long term upside potential through planned equity or profit participation
- A high-trust, remote-first culture with a base in Munich and a globally distributed team
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Team events and conferences such as Solana Breakpoint, Berlin Blockchain Week, and Sui Base Camp
- Generous learning and development budget and mentorship from experts across DeFi and infrastructure
- A friendly, diverse, and values led team that prioritizes meaningful work and shared success
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