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Backend Software Engineer

Financial technology company

  • LocationNew York
  • TypeFull-time
  • Posted5 October 2026

The role, as published

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.

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

  • Medical, dental and HSA coverage

Location and work model

  • New York, NY, United States
  • On-site, 5 days per week in office
  • Full-time

Compensation, as the posting describes it

  • Equity
  • Retirement plan with employer match

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