Reya Labs - Rust Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems. Your role goes beyond writing code—you’ll architect systems that are resilient, secure, and optimized for low-latency, real-time processing. We’re a dynamic, forward-thinking, fully remote team with an ambitious roadmap and a relentless drive to make things happen.

The ideal candidate is someone who loves DeFi, web3, engineering, security, rigor and speed. If you’re a highly skilled Senior Backend engineer with over eight years of experience with a commitment to code quality and state-of-the-art software testing practices, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain the core backend systems that power the Reya DeX and Network. This includes writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code. The exchange backend will need to support a high-throughput order-book and index on-chain data into event queues and various persistence layers to be consumed by the UI and Risk Dashboards via scalable APIs and WebSockets.

• System Architecture: Define the high-level structure of the backend systems, the data flow, and interactions between the various components of the backend stack. Focus on messaging and event-driven architecture patterns common in financial services.

• Reliability, Performance & Availability: Ensure the architectural design addresses reliability and high availability and performance requirements. Implement failover mechanisms, redundancy, and disaster recovery plans to minimize downtime.

• Security: Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect backend systems and APIs from a variety of attack patterns including but not limited to DDoS attacks, data breaches, injection attacks.

• Data Storage Strategy: Define the strategy for data storage, including selection of databases and data models suitable for financial applications. Consider trade-offs between relational, key-value stores and messaging queues.

• Testing Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive testing strategy including unit, integration, security, load and performance testing. Collaborate with the development team to create and maintain detailed test reports and testing processes.

• Technological Evaluation: Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in backend development and architecture. Evaluate the potential adoption of new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance our systems’ performance and scalability.

• Documentation and Communication: Clearly document the architectural design, making it accessible to the development team and non-technical audience. Collaborate with software engineers to implement the design effectively and ensure that it aligns with the intended goals.

• Code Review: Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and enforce coding standards and best practices.

• Team Collaboration: Work closely with the cross-functional team, including on-chain and front end engineers as well as the heads of product management and quant, cto and ceo.