Backend Engineer

Hyperliquid Labs

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APAC on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 21, 2025 Last posted March 21, 2025
Job description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and optimize all layers of the Hyperliquid protocol stack. This includes consensus, execution (HyperCore and HyperEVM), and API/RPC servers.

  • Design and implement financial and trading primitives on the Hyperliquid L1

About You:

  • Very strong systems engineering ability: writing modular, maintainable code within a complex codebase, where correctness and performance are critical

  • Interest in performance optimization

  • Strong first principles thinker

  • Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication skills

  • Competitive programming experience (e.g., IOI, ICPC) or similar level of programming ability

  • Experience with Rust

  • Able to work in-person

About this role

Summary

Design and optimize blockchain protocol layers and financial primitives

Job title

Backend Engineer

Experience level

null

Industry

software

Location requirements

APAC region, candidate must be able to work in-person.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

systems engineeringperformance optimizationproblem-solvingcommunicationrust

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

systems engineeringperformance optimizationcompetitve programmingrust
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Apache County, AZ, USA

On-site Place
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