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LATAM

  • Design and implement high-performance components in Rust, C++, or Go for the DEX engine and protocol runtime.
  • Build low-latency pipelines for order execution, event propagation, and state updates, optimizing concurrency and memory layout.
  • Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks using profiling and benchmarking, driving system design decisions for senior candidates.

Rust C++ Go Distributed Systems Profiling

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Americas

  • Design and implement highly scalable brokerage systems and microservices.
  • Collaborate with global teams to enhance the core framework and support multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
  • Act as incident commander during regional business hours, ensuring proactive 24x7 stability.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. With a global team of 400+ members spanning multiple countries, we are deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Own core exchange backend systems, including order matching and position management for perpetual futures.
  • Build and optimize the matching engine through profiling and reducing lock contention.
  • Design for correctness at scale with queueing and backpressure mechanisms.

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling users to trade on outcomes of real-world events. The company is rapidly growing, with over $21B traded in 2025, and fosters a culture of ownership and innovation.

Portugal

  • Design and build production-grade systems that are reliable, scalable, and observable, owning them end-to-end.
  • Debug complex production issues across multiple layers and improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Apply machine learning as needed, framing problems correctly and building reproducible pipelines for deployment and monitoring.

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we process over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually and prioritize a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

EMEA

  • Design, develop, and maintain core systems for market data products, ensuring reliability and scalability.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and solve complex technical challenges across engineering teams.
  • Optimize systems for low latency and high throughput, focusing on performance improvements.

The company builds high-performance systems for modern financial markets. It is a globally distributed team of experienced engineers and financial technology specialists.

Global

  • Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs for cryptocurrency swapping.
  • Build routing and aggregation logic for swap execution across multiple liquidity sources.
  • Integrate on-chain and off-chain data sources (RPC nodes, indexers, third-party APIs).

Biti Pro is a company building core backend systems for cryptocurrency swapping and DeFi aggregation. They are a small team focused on high-performance, scalable services.

$150,000–$200,000/yr
Global

  • Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency C++, Go, and Python services for core platform components.
  • Take complete ownership of the feature lifecycle from development through production deployment and ongoing operations.
  • Implement and integrate complex algorithms including tracking, inference, and sensor fusion into production services.

Cavnue, a Consor company, develops smart road technologies that deliver real-time digital twins of the roadway environment using AI, sensors, and cameras to improve safety and efficiency. We are building a diverse, remote-friendly team focused on engineering excellence and real-world impact.

  • Develop and maintain a robust backend hosting a novel reasoning engine, focusing on systems architecture and scalability.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines, observability, and scalable services using languages like Rust, OCaml, or TypeScript.
  • Collaborate with the team to define features, write design documents, and deliver results end-to-end.

Planting Space builds modular probabilistic models for rigorous analysis in finance and scientific research. They are a small, collaborative team focused on robust and scalable systems, seeking engineers with an entrepreneurial spirit.

$163,000–$263,670/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs.
  • Own and improve the reliability, latency, and scalability of our streaming and polling infrastructure.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues while sharing the team's on-call rotation.

LaunchDarkly builds a feature management platform that enables safe and gradual software releases. The company is growing and fosters a humble, open, collaborative culture.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, implement, and test distributed energy resource controls and telemetry software on customer hardware at sites around the world.
  • Develop high-performance, production-grade applications optimized for resource- and bandwidth-constrained environments.
  • Implement and enforce best security practices for critical infrastructure and cyber-physical systems, while mentoring junior engineers.

Verse is building an energy intelligence platform for the AI economy, helping large energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. The company is a high-growth startup backed by Bessemer, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, with a culture rooted in empathy, transparency, and thoughtful action.

Canada

  • Design and build core backend systems powering the fleet of connected vehicles and consumer apps.
  • Participate in cross-functional collaboration with PMs, engineers, data scientists, and operations teams.
  • Contribute to on-call rotation, troubleshooting production issues and improving service reliability.

Lime is the largest global shared micromobility company on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable, and carbon-free. A Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Company, Lime has powered over one billion rides across 30 countries, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration among engineers, data scientists, and designers.

Global

  • Design and implement new features within the Data Product space, including trust-minimized off-chain computation and aggregation of external data in blockchain environments.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of data products that power the largest market share of DeFi by total value secured.
  • Build core products with Smart Contracts using Solidity, Move, and Rust.

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The company has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and fosters a collaborative, autonomous engineering culture.

$140,000–$225,000/yr
US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Build and maintain backend services for our LLM gateway, including routing, rate limiting, and observability.
  • Contribute to sandboxing and isolation infrastructure for safe agent-generated code execution.
  • Write high-performance backend code in Go, Rust, or async Python, supporting Kubernetes-based platform services.

AZX accelerates positive impact in critical industries through AI transformation. Founded in 2024 and profitable from the start, we work with category leaders in real estate, energy, logistics, and utilities.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Set technical direction for agentic systems and drive fixes from hypothesis to shipped, measured results.
  • Work across GitLab's codebase as a generalist, applying distributed systems judgment to catch concurrency and scale issues.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews and pairing, and collaborate with India-based group on roadmap.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security and compliance risk. Trusted by more than 50 million registered users and more than half of the Fortune 100, GitLab's high-performance culture is driven by values, AI adoption, and continuous knowledge exchange.

Canada

  • Design and implement new US payments gateway functionality in Go, aligned to product requirements and technical architecture.
  • Work collaboratively with Product, Engineering and other functions to refine requirements and validate implementation choices.
  • Contribute to technical design activity, including design proposals, implementation plans and problem-solving within Form3 platform architecture.

Form3 revolutionizes the world of payments with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. They are a global company that hires talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity.

Latin America

  • Design and build scalable systems for AI training data and evaluation.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from technical design to deployment.
  • Build human-in-the-loop platforms and annotator workflows.

An early-stage AI infrastructure company building training data and evaluation systems for frontier AI labs. A post-Series A organization with a small engineering team, offering significant individual ownership and influence.

Germany

  • Design and develop core networking components for a large-scale Virtual Private Cloud, including control-plane and data-plane systems.
  • Improve scalability, performance, and resilience of critical network services, implementing capabilities like IPv6, VPC peering, and load balancing.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure networking and participate in design reviews and coding interviews.

Our partner is a leading cloud infrastructure platform, enabling large-scale AI and cloud services. They foster a highly technical, international engineering environment with a trust-based culture and strong emphasis on ownership and continuous improvement.

$200,000–$350,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate production software systems.
  • Own significant technical projects from architecture through deployment.
  • Develop scalable services, APIs, infrastructure, and internal tooling.

The company builds sophisticated infrastructure and software systems. It is a rapidly scaling technology company that values ownership and technical excellence.

$100,800–$152,400/yr
Europe

  • Designing, building, and running cloud-native microservices in Go that are the backbone of our real-time payments platform.
  • Taking full ownership of services from design and implementation to deployment and production support.
  • Collaborating closely with other engineers in a flat, autonomous team structure with a focus on code quality and continuous improvement.

Form3 is a cloud-native payment platform revolutionizing real-time payments with cutting-edge technology. The engineering team is a remote-first group of skilled, collaborative individuals focused on building secure, scalable, and reliable payment technology.

$172,000–$242,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own and scale distributed systems for orchestration, APIs, and data paths.
  • Apply query-engine expertise to optimize work execution and data movement.
  • Exercise strong technical judgment on ambiguous problems.

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms used for mission-critical workloads. This remote-first company fosters a supportive, high-performance culture that empowers team members to do their best work.

Global

  • Lead technical architecture and mentor engineers to build scalable, robust payment systems.
  • Drive complex cross-team projects, defining technical strategy and ensuring timely delivery.
  • Collaborate with product and design to solve challenging problems and optimize performance.

Yuno is the AI-native operating system of global commerce, connecting merchants to 1,000+ payment methods and 460+ integrations in 190+ countries. They serve global brands like McDonald's and offer a remote-first culture with a focus on innovation.