Blockchain Engineer

BLOCKCHAIN ENGINEER – On-site NYC   Plexus has partnered with a high-performance crypto trading platform building advanced infrastructure for Hyperliquid, enabling users to trade perps, prediction markets, swaps, and spot from a unified balance. The goal is to eliminate bridges, fragmented collateral, and multi-frontend complexity to create a seamless, retail-friendly trading experience with institutional-grade performance.   Position Overview: They are seeking a Blockchain  Engineer to architect and optimize the distributed systems powering next-generation trading on Hyperliquid. Candidates with trading-firm or high-throughput markets experience are strongly preferred.   Key Responsibilities:

• Build execution engines, transaction pools, storage layers, and replication systems for low-latency trading.
• Extend and harden consensus algorithms for safety, liveness, and high throughput.
• Develop unified balance trading systems, including margining and liquidation logic.
• Profile CPU, memory, I/O, and networking to eliminate bottlenecks.
• Integrate cryptographic primitives and build secure networking layers (TLS, TCP/UDP/QUIC).

  Qualifications:

• 2+ years building blockchain distributed systems or consensus engines.
• Expert proficiency in Rust and low-level systems engineering.
• Experience working at a trading firm or on high-performance financial infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of PBFT, HotStuff, Tendermint, or similar protocols.
• Strong cryptography and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with RocksDB or MDBX.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

  Why Join? A high-impact systems role building core infrastructure for the next evolution of trading on Hyperliquid – with significant ownership, deep technical scope, and meaningful equity.