- Raydar
- New York, NY
- Full-Time
- 30 days ago
- $185,000–$300,000 / year
Backend Software Engineer.
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Backend Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role suits a backend software engineer with production systems experience and an interest in trading or financial markets.
- The Person:The person will build risk services and workflow state machines, maintain consistency across asynchronous processes, ingest live data feeds, coordinate time-sensitive actions, and create request-response and streaming interfaces.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has production Rust experience, asynchronous programming knowledge, experience with relational, time-series, and key-value databases, and a demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets.
About the role
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