Staff Backend Engineer — C++/Rust - Remote

Overview

We are looking for a staff backend engineer passionate about solving complex problems and motivated to shape the MEV landscape on Monad with high-performance solutions. You will play a pivotal role in our journey from testnet to mainnet, with significant ownership in all stages from design, development, deployment, and maintenance.

In Short

• Staff backend engineer position focused on C++ and Rust.
• Work on high-performance solutions in the MEV landscape.
• Ownership of design, development, deployment, and maintenance.
• 5+ years of systems programming experience required.
• Experience with low-latency, high-performance networking architecture.
• Proven track record of technical leadership.
• Daily software shipping and production experience needed.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills essential.
• Performance tuning and networking stack optimization required.
• Remote-first position with a global team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of systems programming experience with expertise in low-level languages like C++ and Rust (preferably both).
• Experience designing production-grade, low-latency, high-performance networking architecture and distributed systems.
• Proven track record of technical leadership and project ownership from start to finish.
• Experience shipping software and pushing to production on a daily basis.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in performance tuning and networking stack optimization.

Benefits

• Understanding of MEV and on-chain trading, with experience building MEV bots or MEV infrastructure.
• HFT experience.
• Knowledge of blockchain node infrastructure, consensus, and P2P networking.
• Experience running blockchain infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Linux server technologies.