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Software Engineer, Backend Systems

Posted 2 weeks ago
San Francisco, California, United States$185K–$300KFintech / Crypto
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About the role

Company: Confidential - Seed-stage crypto trading platform
Location: San Francisco, CA - on-site, 5 days per week
Compensation: $185,000 - $300,000 base (based on qualifications and experience) + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Company

A seed-stage startup building a single trading front end for crypto, bringing perpetuals, cross-chain spot and prediction markets into one portfolio-margined experience. Its founders built widely used institutional trading tools.

The Role

The company is looking for a backend engineer with production Rust experience to help build the infrastructure behind its real-time trading platform. You will work on the systems that carry the most weight in the product: risk, settlement, market data and the APIs traders depend on. This role suits someone with a strong command of asynchronous programming, solid systems knowledge and a performance-driven mindset who thrives in a high-bandwidth, collaborative, in-person environment.

What You Will Do

  • Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines that 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 keep state consistent 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.

What You Bring

  • 2-4 years of experience as a backend software engineer
  • In-depth, production experience with Rust
  • Strong command of asynchronous programming (Tokio experience is a plus) and distributed systems
  • A performance-driven mindset and comfort with latency-sensitive, real-time systems
  • Ability to work on-site in San Francisco 5 days per week
  • Work authorization: The company can support TN visas and H-1B transfers only (excluding H-1B holders in year 3 or year 6). Candidates who do not need sponsorship are also welcome.

Tech Stack

Rust, Tokio, distributed systems, blockchain, REST APIs, WebSocket APIs, Docker

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