Rust Backend Architect for Low-Latency Crypto Trading

MLabs Ltd; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity 0.2%–0.5%

Hybrid work

Job summary

MLabs Ltd. is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build core components of its next-generation institutional trading framework. You will work on a privacy-preserving, high-throughput system powering decentralized execution at scale.

Join an elite technical team to develop secure, low-latency infrastructure, audit smart contracts, and optimize real-time trading execution. Prior experience with Rust, EVM environments, and TEEs is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing high-performance backend services and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving cryptography and TEEs is a plus.
• Experience with blockchain concepts and smart contracts is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Core Infrastructure Development: Design, implement, and maintain high-performance backend services and core infrastructure components using Rust.
• Smart Contract Engineering: Build, optimize, and audit highly secure smart contracts tailored for advanced decentralized virtual machine (EVM) environments.
• Latency Optimization: Develop, refine, and optimize real-time trading infrastructure to achieve sub-millisecond end-to-end execution latencies.
• System Architecture: Collaborate closely with foundational engineering teams on protocol architecture, cryptographic implementation, and scalable distributed system design.
• Security & Cryptography: Integrate privacy-preserving cryptography, including TEEs, into the core transaction pipeline.
• Systems Programming: Demonstrated professional proficiency in Rust and low-level systems programming.
• Trading Systems Exposure: Prior exposure to high-throughput quantitative trading systems, market-making infrastructure, or order routing engines.
• Distributed Networks: Proven experience designing, profiling, and optimizing high-performance, low-latency distributed systems.
• Blockchain Knowledge: Strong structural understanding of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and secure smart contract development.
• Advanced Concepts: Familiarity with mathematical and cryptographic concepts, specifically privacy-preserving primitives and TEE architectures.
• Operational Mindset: An autonomous problem-solving approach with a passion for constructing highly resilient, scalable infrastructure.

Skills

Low-latency design

Distributed systems

Blockchain concepts

Cryptography fundamentals

Systems programming

Tools

Rust

Smart contracts

EVM environments

TEEs

Job description

MLabs Ltd. is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build core components of its next-generation institutional trading framework. You will work on a privacy-preserving, high-throughput system powering decentralized execution at scale.

Join an elite technical team to develop secure, low-latency infrastructure, audit smart contracts, and optimize real-time trading execution. Prior experience with Rust, EVM environments, and TEEs is highly valued.