DeFi Developer

DeFi Rust Engineer – London - Salary negotiable

Working with a high-calibre DeFi team building serious onchain trading infrastructure.

Looking for a quant-minded engineer with a strong academic background (maths, physics, CS, engineering or similar) and a genuine obsession with onchain market mechanics.

You should understand:

• How liquidity behaves in concentrated AMMs (Uniswap v3-style)

• Tick-range management and LP optimisation

• DEX–CEX arbitrage dynamics

• MEV structures and incentive design

• Emerging ecosystems like Hyperliquid

What you'll be doing:

• Building and improving connectivity across AMMs, orderbooks and major CEXs

• Optimising pricing and execution engines across L1/L2 environments

• Designing intelligent liquidity strategies (JIT liquidity, dynamic range management)

• Working on low-latency data ingestion, mempool flows and cross-rollup execution

Requirements:

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field

• 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity

• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or onchain systems

• Strong distributed systems knowledge

• Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git

High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure.

London-based preferred but may look at remote candidates.

Contact for a confidential discussion

Job Details

Company
Harrington Starr
Location
Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted