Lead Engineer - Tokenization

Lead Engineer - Tokenization

Employment type: Full-time / Contract/Company: Gyld Finance

Gyld Finance builds infrastructure to bring fixed income on-chain, issuing tokenized USD corporate bonds backed 1:1 by the underlying security held with regulated custodians and brokers. The core platform (broker & custody integrations, order execution, settlement, reconciliation and on-chain compliance) is built and the team is approaching launch; Gyld is backed by Lightshift, GSR and Anchorage Digital.

Responsibilities:

- Own and improve systems that place broker orders, process fills, settle trades and reconcile positions and cash.
- Build for critical failure cases: partial fills, rejected orders, stale states, settlement breaks and retries.
- Work across broker, custodian, banking and crypto rails where 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 and CI/CD.
- Diagnose and resolve production incidents involving live orders or settlement.
- Design and document pragmatic architecture and operational procedures for a small team.

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 with ability to ramp to 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 engineering workflow and available to join in the near term.

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.
- Worked directly with broker, custodian or exchange APIs.
- Dealt with edge cases around orders, settlement and reconciliation.
- Experience connecting traditional financial infrastructure with blockchain systems.

Stack:

Rust, FIX, OMS, Order Execution, Tokenization, RWA, Trading Systems

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 ($125K–$200K), equity (0%–2%) and option to be paid in digital currency.

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