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