Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A fast-growing technology company is seeking a backend engineer with strong systems programming skills to build real-time infrastructure. The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and modern backend development.
Highlights
High-impact backend engineering role focused on real-time systems, performance, and building advanced financial technology solutions.
Description
*hiring on behalf of our client
Title: Software Engineer, Backend Systems
Time: Full-Time
Location: San Francisco (5 days in-office)
Compensation: $185K - $300K + Competitive equity
The Company
Our client is building an all-in-one crypto trading application designed to solve the fragmented user experience retail traders face across multiple front ends and wallet extensions.
Their platform provides a seamless portfolio margin trading experience, offering access to Perps, Crosschain Spot, and Prediction Markets all in one venue.
Role Overview
Our client is looking for a Software Engineer, Backend Systems with production Rust experience to join their team in San Francisco.
You will be instrumental in building the backend infrastructure behind a real-time trading platform.
The ideal candidate has a strong command of asynchronous programming, systems knowledge, and a performance-driven mindset to thrive in a high-bandwidth, collaborative in-person environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines to manage risk and improve capital efficiency in volatile markets.
• Design and implement the blockchain state machines that power trading, settlement, and risk operations.
• Develop services that maintain consistent state across asynchronous processes using voting, consensus, and coordination mechanisms.
• Process live market data and coordinate actions across trading venues, managing WebSocket streams and time-sensitive workflows.
• Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs that power the trading interface with millisecond-level response times.
Qualifications
• 2-4 years of experience as a backend software engineer.
• Production experience with Rust and asynchronous programming (e.g., Tokio).
• Real, demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets.
• Proven track record of building backend services for real-time, high-throughput systems.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-stakes engineering environment (VC-backed startup experience preferred).
• Proficiency with various databases (relational, time-series, key-value).
• Familiarity with Docker, distributed systems, and blockchain technologies.
• Low-latency, trading systems, FinTech, or personal Rust/C side projects are a plus.
• Must be authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
