DeFi Rust Engineer – London - Salary negotiable
Working with a high‑calibre DeFi team building serious onchain trading infrastructure.
Looking for a quant‑minded engineer with a strong academic background (maths, physics, CS, engineering or similar) and a genuine obsession with onchain market mechanics.
You should understand:
* How liquidity behaves in concentrated AMMs (Uniswap v3‑style)
* Tick‑range management and LP optimisation
* DEX–CEX arbitrage dynamics
* MEV structures and incentive design
* Emerging ecosystems like Hyperliquid
What you’ll be doing:
* Building and improving connectivity across AMMs, orderbooks and major CEXs
* Optimising pricing and execution engines across L1/L2 environments
* Designing intelligent liquidity strategies (JIT liquidity, dynamic range management)
* Working on low‑latency data ingestion, mempool flows and cross‑rollup execution
Requirements:
* Advanced degree in a quantitative field
* 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity
* Experience building low‑latency, high‑throughput trading or onchain systems
* Strong distributed systems knowledge
* Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git
High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure.
London‑based preferred.
Contact ciara.clarke@harringtonstarr.com for a confidential discussion on this role.
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