--- title: 'Infrastructure Engineer (Contract – LATAM) at Nexus' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/infrastructure-engineer-contract-latam-nexus-remote-6n47cwp9j6py' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Infrastructure Engineer (Contract – LATAM) at Nexus - **Company:** Nexus - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** contract - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-06-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus.xyz/0deb2be5-68fd-4c8f-8be1-993cd3229a9d ## Job description ## About Nexus Nexus is the engine for verifiable finance — a blockchain designed to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system. Built to support every major financial market on a single global exchange, Nexus unifies infrastructure that has historically been fragmented across chains and intermediaries. Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, Nexus is proud to be a cross-continental team of engineers, cryptographers, and market builders. We’re investing deeply in the Latin American ecosystem — and always looking for world-class talent to join us. Nexus is backed by leading investors, including Pantera, Lightspeed, Dragonfly, Faction, Blockchain Builders Fund, Alliance, and SVA, and works with more than 100 partners across the global finance and blockchain stack. Location: Remote Type: Contract ## The Role We're hiring different levels of Infrastructure Engineer in Latin America to support and help build the core infrastructure powering Nexus's Layer 1 blockchain and its high-performance exchange, enshrined at the protocol layer. This role focuses on distributed infrastructure supporting financial workloads that demand reliability and performance. You'll work closely with senior engineers, product, and protocol teams while contributing remotely from Argentina or broader LATAM. This is a great opportunity to grow your career working on infrastructure at the heart of a global execution system — from public testnet through mainnet. ## What You'll Do - Support the deployment and maintenance of distributed infrastructure powering Nexus's L1 blockchain and exchange. - Assist in optimizing transaction pipelines for speed and reliability under senior guidance. - Contribute to building secure, production-grade systems that meet performance requirements. - Help maintain high-availability infrastructure across cloud and distributed environments. - Learn and apply best practices for observability, reliability, and secure operations. What Success Looks Like - Reliable contribution to a stable mainnet with consistent uptime and availability. - Active participation in improving exchange performance and latency. - Quickly ramping up on internal tooling and workflows — first meaningful contribution within the first month. - Growing comfort with high-performance benchmarking and infrastructure tuning. - Positive collaboration with the team and consistent delivery on assigned tasks. Must-Have - Experience, with some exposure to infrastructure or distributed systems. - Working knowledge of Rust, Go, or another systems language. - Basic understanding of distributed systems concepts (consensus, fault tolerance, latency). - Hands-on experience with Docker; familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus. - Exposure to observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar. - Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi. - Basic experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Eagerness to learn secure, fault-tolerant infrastructure practices. - Good written and spoken Business English. Levels we're hiring - Principal 8+ years - System design leadership, cross-team impact, mentorship, leading 5 Jr engineers in parallel and teams of at least 10 engineers Bonus Points: - Experience running distributed blockchain infrastructure, validator networks, or Layer-1 systems. - Knowledge of MEV mitigation, transaction ordering fairness, or decentralized exchange infrastructure. - Experience optimizing consensus or transaction pipelines for determinism and low latency. - Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs or cryptographic ## Why Join Us - Build the distributed infrastructure behind a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain. - Work on systems where infrastructure performance directly shapes the end-to-end trading experience. - Collaborate with top engineers in AI, cryptography, runtime systems, and distributed consensus. - Shape primitives and infrastructure designed for long-term correctness, performance, and global scale. - Join a high-performance engineering culture where deep technical work is valued and expected. ## About Nexus ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nexus is building a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain for verifiable finance and a global supercomputer for verifiable computation. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2022 (first funding round December 2022) - **Founders**: Daniel Marin (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / Verifiable computation / Financial technology - **Target customers**: Developers building financial applications, DeFi protocols, AI workloads, and verifiable computing solutions (B2B / developer ecosystem) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Purpose-built for Verifiable Finance” and “the supercomputer for everyone, powering the world’s most complex computation to build the Verifiable Internet” ## Products & Services - **Nexus Blockchain (Layer 1)**: A high-performance blockchain designed for intelligent markets and verifiable financial applications. Focuses on speed, verifiability, and composability. - **NexusEVM**: A fully EVM-compatible Layer 1, allowing developers to deploy existing Ethereum tools and smart contracts without modification. - **NEX Token**: The native digital currency of the Nexus blockchain (total supply 100 trillion). Used for network fees, staking, and governance. - **Verifiable Computation Platform**: A global network where users can lend or borrow compute power securely, enabling transparent and accountable software. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding – $27.2 million (as of June 2024) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead, Series A) - Pantera Capital (co-lead, Series A) - Dragonfly (lead, Seed round) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount growth of +248.1% year-over-year (LinkedIn reports 55 employees as of mid-2025; a conflicting report from BuiltIn lists 32 employees – likely older data) - Mainnet launched in 2025 - Introduced NEX token and NexusEVM - Expanding globally with employees in 16 countries (including India, Argentina, Nigeria, Indonesia, France) ## Competitive Advantages - **Purpose-built for finance**: Unlike general-purpose blockchains, Nexus is optimized for high-performance financial applications and intelligent markets. - **Verifiable computation focus**: Backed by leading researchers (e.g., Chief Scientist Jens Groth) and a team with deep expertise in zero-knowledge proofs and cryptography. - **EVM compatibility**: Lowers the barrier for Ethereum developers to migrate or build on Nexus. - **Strong investor backing**: Led by top-tier crypto and fintech VCs (Lightspeed, Pantera, Dragonfly). ## Strategic Focus - Scaling the Nexus ecosystem and attracting developers to build on the Layer 1. - Expanding verifiable computation use cases into AI, agentic finance, and enterprise applications. - Growing the NEX token utility and liquidity. - Building a global, remote-first engineering team (current job openings target LATAM contractors for engineering roles). ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture**: Employees describe joining “for the mission and staying for the momentum” – solving ambitious problems in verifiable computation. - **Fast-paced, strategic environment**: The company is in constant motion, with a focus on shipping and innovation. - **Remote-friendly**: The majority of roles are remote, with a physical office in San Francisco. Current open positions (Head of Engineering, Backend Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer) are contract-based in LATAM. - **Diverse, global team**: Employees from 16 countries, spanning engineering, science, marketing, and operations. - **Perks**: Not detailed publicly, but the company emphasizes a supportive, high-impact environment with brilliant colleagues. ## Sources 1. [nexus.xyz](https://www.nexus.xyz/) 2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus.xyz](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nexus.xyz) 3. [builtin.com – Nexus profile](https://builtin.com/company/nexus-nexusxyz) 4. [linkedin.com/company/nexus](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nexus) 5. [blog.nexus.xyz – People at Nexus](https://blog.nexus.xyz/people-at-nexus/) ## Other roles at Nexus - [Systems Engineer (Contract, LATAM)](https://feeny.ai/job/systems-engineer-contract-latam-nexus-latin-america-snkht5dabza0) — Latin America - [Backend Engineer (Contract - LATAM)](https://feeny.ai/job/backend-engineer-contract-latam-nexus-latin-america-2jhs59qsk095) — Latin America - [Head of Engineering (Contract - LATAM)](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-engineering-contract-latam-nexus-latin-america-hnnb03fkts53) — Latin America