The role, as published
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own backend engineering for a latency-sensitive platform, with a focus on risk logic, consistent state handling and fast APIs. The role is hands-on and performance-minded, and sits within a close-knit team that works side by side in person.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain risk management services that cope with volatile conditions and use capital efficiently.
- Design and implement state machines that support transaction processing, settlement and risk operations.
- Develop services that keep data consistent across asynchronous processes using coordination and consensus techniques.
- Ingest live data feeds and coordinate time-sensitive workflows across external systems.
- Create high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs with very fast response times.
What we're looking for
- Production experience with Rust.
- A genuine, demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets.
- Comfort working with several database types, including relational, time-series and key-value.
- A track record of shipping server-side software where speed and heavy load matter.
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous programming.
- Prior experience working at a startup.
Bonus points
- Self-directed projects outside of work in a systems programming language.
- Background in latency-sensitive or trading software.
- Experience in fintech, trading or blockchain.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and HSA coverage
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
Compensation, as the posting describes it
- Equity
- Retirement plan with employer match