Software Engineer

Software Engineer San Francisco Engineering / Full Time / On-site Apply for this job About Renegade We're building an onchain dark pool. Dark pools are private exchanges for institutional trading. They're an important part of market structure in US equities trading, and we're bring them to crypto in a DeFi-native way — fully onchain, with no trusted intermediaries. We've been live since late 2024, raised $20M+ in venture dollars, matched $300M+ in volume, and have a lean team that works in-person in San Francisco. Judge our code quality: https://github.com/renegade-fi/renegade Check out the site: https://renegade.fi/ Read the docs: https://docs.renegade.fi/

About The Role

We're looking for one systems-focused engineer to join our team of four. On a team this small, you'll have real ownership and a wide surface area. Example projects: — Design a scalable onchain event ingestion + indexing pipeline — Debug gnarly distributed-systems issues (e.g. raft / consensus edge cases) — Benchmark + optimize our ZK prover stack to raise throughput / rate limits You can shape the role: if you want more customer-facing work, great. If you want to go heads-down and aggressively optimize performance and reliability, also great. About You You’re excited by hard systems problems: trading infrastructure, ZK, distributed systems, performance-sensitive Rust, etc. You’re also senior-leaning on systems judgment: — You’ve built/operated production systems and can anticipate scaling + failure modes — You have taste: you push for simpler designs, strong invariants, good observability — You can move fast without making the codebase impossible to understand If this fits, we look forward to chatting! Apply for this job