Company Overview
MLabs is a dynamic, fully remote team with an ambitious roadmap and a relentless drive to redefine the future of finance. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the architecture and development of the core systems powering a next-generation decentralized exchange (DEX) and network.
Key Responsibilities
- Core Backend Development: Design and maintain the high-throughput order book and indexing systems that power our DEX and network
- Architecture & Scalability: Architect event-driven systems and scalable APIs/WebSockets to serve real-time data to UIs and risk dashboards
- Reliability & Availability: Implement advanced failover mechanisms, redundancy, and disaster recovery plans to ensure 24/7 uptime
- Hardened Security: Protect backend systems against sophisticated attack patterns, including DDoS, data breaches, and injection attacks
- Strategic Data Management: Define storage strategies that balance the trade-offs between relational databases, key-value stores, and messaging queues
- Technical Leadership: Lead comprehensive testing strategies (load, performance, and security), participate in code reviews, and mentor team members
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in Backend Engineering, with a strong background in the Financial Services or Fintech industry
- 6+ years of experience with Rust and/or C++, building highly scalable, low-latency web services
- Concurrency Mastery: Expert knowledge of asynchronous programming, thread safety, and lock-free data structures
- Database & Messaging Expertise: 6+ years with PostgreSQL and 4+ years with low-latency messaging/persistence layers like Kafka, Redis, or RabbitMQ
- Systems Architecture: Proven track record of building high-availability systems that have handled significant transaction volumes
- Cloud & DevOps: Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Security & Testing: Strong proficiency in securing backend APIs and a deep understanding of modern software testing methodologies
Benefits
- Remote-First Culture: Work from anywhere in the world with a high-performance, distributed team
- Incentivized Compensation: Competitive salary plus equity by way of tokens on a sliding scale (tailor your package based on your preference for salary vs. equity)
- Technical Autonomy: Take end-to-end ownership of complex systems and influence our long-term technological roadmap
- Impactful Mission: Help shape the future of finance by building decentralized tools that operate with institutional-grade rigor
- Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge tools in Rust, high-speed messaging, and cloud-native infrastructure