Senior Rust Backend Engineer

Headquarters: Geneva URL: https://www.0d.finance The role You will design, build, and run the backend that powers our strategy vaults and cross-venue trading. This includes integrations with CEXs and perp DEXs, a robust allocation engine, and observable APIs that connect internal systems with DeFi protocols. Your work directly impacts returns. What You ll Do Implement and scale DeFi strategies: from design to production. Build data products and APIs: enabling reliable connectivity to internal trading systems and external DeFi protocols. Own end-to-end problems: from spec to deployment, ensuring systems are reliable and observable. Collaborate with trading & research: turn ideas into live, capital-efficient strategies. Stack & Infra You'll Touch Ingress & API: NGINX Ingress (internal/external), Kong Gateway (auth, rate-limit, plugins). Observability: OpenTelemetry via Grafana Alloy; Prometheus/Alertmanager, Loki, Tempo, Thanos (global view), Mimir (long-term) backed by GCS; Grafana dashboards. Data & Messaging: Kafka (event streams, schema evolution, idempotent consumers). Platform: GCP + Cloud Build, Kubernetes, ArgoCD; Postgres as the primary datastore; Metabase for analytics. What We're Looking For Experience 5+ years building production backends at scale. Lifecycle knowledge of crypto assets (spot, perps, futures, options). Hands-on DeFi integrations. Proven ownership from spec to production and operations. Technical Skills Strong OO programming background (preferably Rust). API design: versioning, backward compatibility, observability. Postgres schema design and query optimization; safe migrations; connection pooling. Kafka or similar pub/sub; backpressure and idempotency patterns. Cloud familiarity (GCP/AWS/Azure), modern CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes). Nice to Have Built or maintained position-keeping / accounting systems (PnL, accounting methods, pricing, greeks). Centralized reference data platforms (assets, networks, instruments), consistent symbology and instrument economics. Trading, risk, or back-office systems, ideally in regulated environment. Why Join Us Competitive compensation with equity/token upside. High impact on core trading systems. Remote (4h CET), lean sharp team, offsites. Mindset End-to-end ownership. Bias to ship with high standards. Fast learning. Clear thinking under uncertainty. Contract Full-time, remote (4h CET) Languages: English & French To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/0d-capital-senior-rust-backend-engineer