Backend Engineer
On-site
Full Time
#Engineering
#Systems Engineering
#Performance Optimization
#Rust
#Consensus
#APIs
We are looking for a backend engineer to join the team. You will be working on the Hyperliquid L1, as it grows to support the future of finance. Key decisions at Hyperliquid are driven by the engineering team, and there is generous upside for team members.
We have an office in Singapore and have a strong preference for working in-person.
Key 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
About You:
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
Bonus:
HFT systems experience
Hyperliquid Labs
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