Lead Engineer - Tokenization

Lead Engineer - Tokenization Contract / Full-Time / Company: Gyld Finance Gyld Finance builds the infrastructure to bring fixed income on-chain, issuing tokenized USD corporate bonds backed 1:1 by underlying securities held with regulated custodians and brokers. The core platform — broker and custody integrations, order execution, settlement, reconciliation and on-chain compliance — is already built and approaching launch. Responsibilities: - Own and improve systems that place broker orders, process fills, settle trades and reconcile positions and cash. - Build for failure cases: partial fills, rejected orders, stale states, settlement breaks, retries and reconciliation mismatches. - Work across broker, custodian, banking and crypto rails as they intersect with trading and settlement. - Ensure internal ledger, custodian positions and on-chain supply remain consistent. - Own production services in a Rust-based architecture; improve reliability, observability, monitoring and alerting. - Strengthen CI/CD, testing, deployment safety and database migration practices; diagnose and resolve production incidents. - Maintain and evolve systems connecting off-chain securities and cash movements with on-chain issuance and redemption, including compliance and transfer controls. Requirements: - Strong hands-on experience building trading, order management or execution systems. - Experience owning production systems where correctness and reliability matter. - Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals. - Rust experience preferred; strong experience in another systems language and ability to ramp into Rust is acceptable. - Comfort with databases, distributed systems, APIs and asynchronous/event-driven architectures. - Working knowledge of blockchain and on-chain settlement concepts (deep smart-contract expertise not required). - Comfortable using AI coding agents as part of the everyday engineering workflow and able to operate autonomously in a small team. Nice to have: - Built execution or post-trade infrastructure at a broker, exchange, trading firm or fintech. - Operated systems that move meaningful amounts of money. - Experience with broker, custodian or exchange APIs and handling edge cases around orders, settlement and reconciliation. - Experience connecting traditional financial infrastructure with blockchain systems. Stack: Rust, FIX, OMS, Order Execution, Tokenization, RWA Benefits: - Significant ownership of a financial platform immediately ahead of launch. - Senior IC role with substantial technical autonomy and minimal management overhead. - Opportunity to work across trading infrastructure, tokenization and on-chain settlement. - Small team where engineering decisions translate directly into product. - Competitive compensation and equity; compensation range listed at $125K – $200K and equity ~0% – 2%; option of being paid in digital currency. 📩 Apply