Remote Backend Engineer - Wakefield

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements

• Experience building or optimizing HFT systems, exchange matching engines, or low-latency trading infrastructure.
• Strong systems programming background in Rust, C++, or Go.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, networking, and performance profiling.
• Bonus: experience with blockchains, consensus, or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement latency-critical components of our L1 and order book engine.
• Optimize network pipelines, serialization, and state access for deterministic performance.
• Contribute to new protocol primitives for timestamped execution and atomic batch auctions.
• Collaborate with researchers on incentive design and cross-domain settlement models.

Technologies

• Blockchain
• Network
• Rust
• Web3
• Architect
• Backend

More

We are pod network, an ambitious early-stage Web3 startup rethinking blockchain performance from first principles. We are building a revolutionary layer-1 protocol designed to bring a Web2-like experience to Web3 systems through a chainless, blockless, leaderless architecture. We offer a competitive salary, a high-impact role in a fast-moving startup, and travel opportunities with thought leadership visibility in the crypto community. We are backed by a16z crypto, 1kx, BBF, and Lemniscap, and we are looking for exceptional engineers to help shape the future of decentralized systems.

last updated 28 week of 2026