Backend Engineer
Hyperliquid Labs, APAC
What you will do
- 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
What you need
- 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
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