About the Role
Location
New York City or San Francisco
Compensation
$185K–$300K + Equity
About the Company
Our client is a well-funded, early-stage crypto trading company building high-performance infrastructure for the next generation of digital asset markets.
What You'll Do
- Build high-performance risk, liquidation and trading systems
- Develop real-time, low-latency backend infrastructure processing live market data
- Build REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times
- Work with Rust, Tokio, asynchronous programming, distributed systems and blockchain
- Solve complex problems around concurrency, state management and high-throughput event streams
Who You Are
- 2–4 years of backend/software engineering experience
- Strong production Rust experience
- Experience with Tokio / asynchronous programming
- Background in real-time, high-throughput or low-latency systems
- Experience with relational, time-series and/or key-value databases
- Fintech, crypto, trading, HFT or blockchain experience
- Genuine interest in financial markets and Web3
- Strong systems fundamentals and ideally meaningful Rust/C side projects or GitHub work
Team Environment
This is a small, highly technical team backed by $15M+ in funding, where engineers can have significant impact and work directly with experienced founders and senior engineers.
Additional Information
U.S. work authorization required. No sponsorship available.
Requirements
Backend Engineering Experience
2–4 years of backend/software engineering experience is required.
Production Rust Skills
Strong production Rust experience is essential for this role.
Asynchronous Programming
Experience with Tokio and asynchronous programming is necessary.
Real-time Systems Background
A background in real-time, high-throughput or low-latency systems is preferred.
Nice to Have
Experience with relational, time-series and/or key-value databases is a plus.
Experience in fintech, crypto, trading, HFT or blockchain is beneficial.
Benefits
Equity
Employees receive equity as part of their compensation.
Impactful Work
Engineers can have significant impact and work directly with experienced founders.