Software Engineer – Backend Systems (Rust)

Location: San Francisco, California; fully in-office five days per week

Salary: $185,000–$300,000 base salary per year plus equity

Company

Well-funded crypto trading startup building a unified platform for trading across digital asset markets, cross-chain assets, fragmented trading venues, and prediction markets. The business has raised over $15M and is led by founders with experience in trading technology and high-frequency trading.

What you will do

• Build and own backend infrastructure for real-time trading, risk management, settlement, and execution across multiple venues.
• Develop risk and liquidation engines that manage exposure, optimize capital efficiency, and respond to changing market conditions.
• Design blockchain state machines and asynchronous distributed services using coordination, voting, and consensus mechanisms.
• Process high-throughput market-data streams, manage WebSocket connections, and coordinate time-sensitive trading actions.
• Develop REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response targets.
• Profile, debug, and optimize production Rust systems across concurrency, memory allocation, and throughput.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of backend software engineering experience.
• Production experience with Rust is required, including strong knowledge of ownership, lifetimes, and asynchronous programming.
• Solid systems knowledge across networking, databases, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Experience building asynchronous services; familiarity with Tokio is particularly relevant.
• Experience developing REST or WebSocket APIs and working with distributed systems.
• Performance-driven approach and interest in reliable, latency-sensitive infrastructure.
• Experience deploying and debugging production services with Docker and monitoring tools.
• Ability to collaborate closely within a small, technically focused engineering team.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent contract with a fully in-office working model, five days per week.
• Meaningful ownership of core trading, risk, and execution systems.
• Work directly with engineers and founders on architecture and technical direction.
• Small, collaborative engineering team working on complex Rust, blockchain, distributed-systems, and market-data challenges.
• Competitive base salary of $185,000–$300,000 plus equity, depending on experience and qualifications.

Hiring process

• Apply for the Software Engineer – Backend Systems (Rust) position.