Rust Developer Intern (Summer 2026)

About the role

You'll work directly on our Rust trading engine alongside the Head of Trading. The work spans low-latency systems (optimizing the core engine, integrating new venues, improving execution logic) and the production infrastructure around it (trader dashboard frontend/backend, GCP services).

Responsibilities

• Optimize and extend our existing Rust market-making engine
• Integrate new CEX and DEX venues: REST, WebSocket, order lifecycle, market data normalization
• Build and improve the internal trader dashboard (frontend + backend integrations)
• Hook services into our GCP infrastructure: deployment, observability, data pipelines
• Debug live systems against real trading logs and production behavior
• Collaborate with quants to translate strategy logic into production code

Requirements

• Solid Rust experience - you've built something non-trivial, not just followed a tutorial
• Comfortable in Linux/UNIX environments
• Strong grasp of concurrency, async, and performance tradeoffs
• Clean, well-tested code, fluent with standard debugging workflows

Nice-to-Haves

• Crypto exchange API experience (CEX or DEX integrations)
• Frontend/backend work (TypeScript, React, or similar)
• GCP or other cloud infrastructure exposure
• Experience with market data, order books, or execution systems
• Python for tooling, testing, or research integration
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, latency sensitivity)

Benefits

Compensation: $2,000–$4,000/month cash, based on experience. Benefits included. Equity and strategy PnL share available on conversion to full-time.

Pay

Starting immediately or early summer.

Schedule

Internship, ~12 weeks.