Senior Rust Engineer — Low-Latency Trading Backends

ArtOfBlockchain; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 320,000 - 465,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Trade in Austin, Texas, is building low-latency backend systems for on-chain retail trading. As a Rust Engineer, you will develop and operate high-throughput services powering real-time data and order execution, with sub-10ms latency targets across Solana and EVM ecosystems.

You will work on async Rust, Tokio, and cross-language interfaces with TypeScript, while profiling and optimizing memory, throughput, and tail latency in production.

Qualifications

• Production Rust in async contexts.
• Deep Rust ownership, lifetimes and concurrency.
• Experience with handling high concurrency services.
• Strong debugging and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and scale Rust services under heavy retail and market load.
• Develop ultra-low-latency real-time indexing engines for Solana and EVM chains.
• Push Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse to performance limits and optimize data backends.

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous Rust

Tokio

Ownership & Concurrency

Performance

High-load systems

Tools

sqlx

tokio-tungstenite

rdkafka

Redis

Job description

Axiom Trade in Austin, Texas, is building low-latency backend systems for on-chain retail trading. As a Rust Engineer, you will develop and operate high-throughput services powering real-time data and order execution, with sub-10ms latency targets across Solana and EVM ecosystems.

You will work on async Rust, Tokio, and cross-language interfaces with TypeScript, while profiling and optimizing memory, throughput, and tail latency in production.