Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer | Low-Latency Trading Systems 📍 New York City 💰 Highly Competitive Salary + Equity + Performance Bonus I’m partnering with a well-funded technology company building mission-critical infrastructure for digital markets. They’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, high-calibre engineering team focused on building the systems that keep a high-performance trading platform operating reliably during periods of extreme market volatility. You’ll be solving complex engineering challenges where latency, correctness and reliability are absolutely critical. You’ll be working on * Designing and building low-latency backend systems * Developing real-time risk and liquidation infrastructure * Architecting performance-critical distributed services * Solving complex numerical and systems engineering problems * Building software that must remain reliable under extreme load * Owning projects from architecture through production Tech; * Rust * C++ * Go * Python * TypeScript * Distributed Systems You’ll likely enjoy this role if you have experience with; * Trading platforms * Exchanges * Low-latency systems * Financial infrastructure * Crypto * Market making * Quantitative systems * High-performance backend engineering We’re looking for engineers who; * Have 7+ years building production systems * Enjoy solving difficult technical problems * Can own architecture end-to-end * Care about performance, correctness and reliability * Thrive in small, highly technical engineering teams If you’d like to work on some of the most technically challenging backend systems in the industry, let's chat!