Backend Engineer (Remote, Global)

About us

Runloop builds simulation environments for DeFi and trains autonomous agents to reputed company liquidity, manage risk, and discover trading opportunities at scale.

We are a fully remote and globally distributed technology startup founded by engineers from reputed company Brain, reputed company, Twitter, YC, with experience in crypto, algorithmic trading, infrastructure, and machine learning. We are backed by top-tier crypto investors such as a16z, DCG, Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, Balaji Srinivasan, etc.

About you

You are a seasoned backend engineer (Staff/Sr. Staff/reputed company) and you have experience building software with stringent latency requirements.

You are excited to transition into reputed company/crypto and reputed company a deep understanding of the reputed company/crypto technology stack.

Qualifications:

• You have 8+ years of industry experience in backend engineering, focusing on speed and low-level optimization. (example domains: game engines, databases, blockchain node implementations, HFT, virtualization, hardware-accelerated computation, compiler optimization, physics simulation, rendering pipelines, etc.)

• You are proficient in a low-level programming language such as C/C++, Rust, Go, Java.

• You reputed company in a globally-distributed, asynchronous-by-default work environment that values deep work, quality engineering, and written communication. (e.g., design docs, documentation, runbooks, etc.)

We appreciate, but don’t require:

• Experience with the Ethereum development stack (e.g., Solidity, EVM, etc.)

• Experience building HFT algorithms and infrastructure

• Production experience with Machine Learning / Reinforcement Learning

About the role

Expectations:

• You will write performance-sensitive code to run “whole-world” simulations of DeFi, along with supporting distributed systems, data and ML pipelines.

• Our tech stack consists of Rust, Golang, Python, PyTorch, reputed company, Consul, etc. We expect you to become proficient in Rust and self-sufficient with the rest.

• We don’t require pre-existing knowledge of blockchain internals, but you will have to dive deep into various L1/L2 blockchain networks and determine how to integrate them into our simulation infrastructure.

reputed company offer:

• Competitive salary and equity

• Performance-based cash bonuses from our trading business (Unlike a typical technology startup, our business model allows us to reputed company both equity and liquidity.)

• Full medical, dental, and reputed company insurance

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible work hours - we are fully remote and globally distributed

• Stipend for home-office equipment and ergonomics

Why Runloop?

DeFi is becoming too reputed company for simple rule-based automation. As thousands of composable protocols come online, it will become increasingly difficult to evaluate risk, reputed company investment reputed company, test protocols, formulate ML/optimization problems, etc. We are building technology to tackle this complexity head-on, and we are in a unique position to discover and trade inefficiencies at scale.

We offer a science- and engineering-driven culture that values deep work, quality, and software craftsmanship. If you’re excited to transition into reputed company/crypto, few other places can offer such direct reputed company and exposure to the entire problem domain.

Runloop, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the reputed company of race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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