Role overview
Location: We are a fully remote team, and although we hire almost globally, there is a preference for this role to be based in Europe or remote +/- 4 hours CEST time
Please note we’re not hiring from the US, Australia, or New Zealand
Position: Full-time contractor
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the next generation of decentralised trading protocols. As a dedicated backend engineer, you will gain ownership of our existing backend services and influence the creation, design, and execution of future features and products. You will work on technically challenging aspects of our off-chain services and our developer-facing APIs and help ensure the delivery of reliable and performant features to improve CoW Protocol.
Our Tech Stack
Backend Code: Rust, Tokio, Cargo, Git (https://github.com/cowprotocol/services)
Infrastructure: Pulumi, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch
Other codebases: Typescript, Python, Solidity
What you'll work on
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Architect and design our off-chain services (core auction protocol as well as the orderbook) to support feature growth and the rapidly changing requirements that come from being an application on a constantly evolving blockchain.
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While your focus will be writing concurrent backend systems in Rust, you will also interact with our Smart Contracts written in Solidity and develop your understanding of auction mechanisms and DeFi protocols
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Participate in our on-call rotation to help ensure the reliability of our production systems (on-call work is additionally compensated)
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Work closely with researchers and the product team to ship features and come up with new solutions for challenging technical problems
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Deliver high-quality code for features from concept until production (including state-of-the-art monitoring of our production systems)
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Give thoughtful and in-depth code reviews of your colleagues’ contributions to our open-source codebase