Rust/DeFi Engineer
📍 Kyiv, Ukraine
Rust/DeFi engineer and trading systems architect with 3+ years of experience building MEV strategies and infrastructure. Led engineering teams of up to 20 people while maintaining hands-on development. Strong math background; deep expertise in DeFi, arbitrage strategies, research, analytics, and latency optimization.
Salary
USD 150,000 – 300,000
Peanut Trade
Jul 2025 — Present
Developing Solana atomic arbitrage strategy from scratch, maintaining positions in top-10 by PnL. Built shred reception & decoding infrastructure; optimized program CU usage (8x lower); developed on-chain competition analytics; integrating new DEX/prop AMM protocols; improving monolith latency (<1ms inside application); improving transaction landing performance.
Peanut Trade
Jul 2025 — Present
Owning prop trading strategies lifecycle — research, backtesting, deployment, and ~$5M capital allocation across trading strategies. Designed solver for NEAR intents; facilitating knowledge sharing between trading teams.
Peanut Trade
Jan 2025 — Jun 2025
Built and led the technical organization of ~35 engineers (hiring, architecture, security, infrastructure) across consumer product, market-making, prop trading, and DevOps teams. Hired & led tech lead transition; hired & led an in-house DevOps team from scratch, migrated from an outstaff team; built tech/quant talent-acquisition & hiring pipelines.
Peanut Trade
May 2024 — Dec 2024
Scaled the DEX/CEX arbitrage engineering team from 3 to 15 engineers; drove trading performance analytics, increasing APY to 500% in 2024.
Peanut Trade
Jan 2023 — May 2024
Built and optimized the core DEX/CEX arbitrage system, integrated blockchains (Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Base, Solana) and centralized exchanges (Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, KuCoin, Gate.io, MEXC, Bitget).
BSc · Software Engineering
2023 – 2027