Director of Engineering

Nexus

Remote regions

US

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About the Role:

  • You will own engineering of the Nexus Exchange end-to-end, including matching engine, risk engine, settlement, and infrastructure.
  • This is a money-handling domain where correctness, throughput, and latency are non-negotiable.
  • You'll set direction and stay hands-on in the highest-leverage code.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and lead the full Exchange and its sub-components: API, CLI, SDK, oracle, and infrastructure.
  • Drive end-to-end automation of engineering processes: logging, telemetry, observability.
  • Design team structures and incentives with the CEO and exec team.

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years building production software, 2+ in engineering leadership across multiple teams.
  • Proven high-throughput, low-latency systems experience with strong concurrent/parallel systems command.
  • Deep hands-on stack fluency in Rust, Go, Next.js/TS, and GCP.

Nexus

Nexus is a blockchain built to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system, unifying infrastructure across chains. Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, the cross-continental team of engineers and cryptographers is backed by investors like Pantera and Lightspeed.

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