Backend Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a financial technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own server-side engineering for a latency-sensitive platform, covering risk logic, distributed state handling, live data processing and the interfaces that front-end clients depend on. You will work closely with colleagues in a fully in-person setting.

What you'll do

- Build and maintain risk management services that help control exposure when conditions are volatile.

- Design and implement state machines behind core transaction, settlement and risk workflows.

- Develop services that keep data consistent across concurrent asynchronous processes using coordination and consensus techniques.

- Ingest live data feeds and orchestrate time-sensitive actions across multiple external systems.

- Create fast, dependable request-response and streaming interfaces for client applications.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- A genuine, demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets.

- Production experience with Rust.

- A track record shipping server-side software for demanding, low-delay workloads, with hands-on systems-level depth beyond data pipeline work.

- Solid grounding in asynchronous programming.

- Working knowledge of several database types, including relational, time-series and key-value stores.

- Prior experience at a startup.

- Personal side projects, ideally in Rust or C, that can be reviewed on a public code profile.

Bonus points

- Background at a fintech, crypto or high-frequency trading firm.

- Low-latency or trading-systems experience.

- Experience at a venture-backed startup.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 185,000 to 300,000 per year

- Equity

- Medical, dental and HSA coverage

- Retirement plan with employer match

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time