# Rust Developer - Senior Backend Engineer / Founding Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer / Founding Engineer - Rust / Fintech / Web3We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own and build the core Rust service that handles all money movement for a fast-growing onchain finance company. This is, by design, the only system in the company that can lose money - which is why it's written in Rust, reviewed the most strictly, and shipped the most carefully. The service is the engine behind every flow that touches a ledger, a payment rail, a hold, a mint or burn, an on-chain action, or the reserve. It integrates a core banking platform on one side and the blockchain on the other, and has to keep both perfectly reconciled to a standard that a banking regulator could trace line by line. This is a hard build: native mint and redeem at the deposit layer, 24/7/365 settlement across banking rails (ACH, wire, SWIFT, and similar) and on-chain rails, an audit-grade double-entry reserve ledger, and dual-control compliance workflows. If you want to work on systems where correctness is non-negotiable and the domain is genuinely interesting, this is that role. What You Will Build The service is a single Rust application organized into clean domain modules, foll

- **Id**: 1287425
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spacedev-rust-developer-senior-backend-engineer-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Uruguay
- **Countries**: UY
- **Hiring countries**: UY
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-26T05:43:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T06:28:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6823
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Blockchain & Crypto, Crypto Wallets

## Company

- **Id**: 2925259
- **Name**: SpaceDev
- **Domain**: spacedev.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/spacedev-io>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: staffing
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: PeopleForce

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no
- **MEV** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **SOC 2** — Optional: yes
- **Solidity** — Optional: yes
- **SQLx** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Uruguay** — Iso: UY; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T05:43:49Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.616
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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