Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer | Low-Latency Trading Systems

📍 New York City

💰 Highly Competitive Salary + Equity + Performance Bonus

I’m partnering with a well-funded technology company building mission-critical infrastructure for digital markets.

They’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, high-calibre engineering team focused on building the systems that keep a high-performance trading platform operating reliably during periods of extreme market volatility.

You’ll be solving complex engineering challenges where latency, correctness and reliability are absolutely critical.

You’ll be working on

* Designing and building low-latency backend systems

* Developing real-time risk and liquidation infrastructure

* Architecting performance-critical distributed services

* Solving complex numerical and systems engineering problems

* Building software that must remain reliable under extreme load

* Owning projects from architecture through production

Tech;

* Rust

* C++

* Go

* Python

* TypeScript

* Distributed Systems

You’ll likely enjoy this role if you have experience with;

* Trading platforms

* Exchanges

* Low-latency systems

* Financial infrastructure

* Crypto

* Market making

* Quantitative systems

* High-performance backend engineering

We’re looking for engineers who;

* Have 7+ years building production systems

* Enjoy solving difficult technical problems

* Can own architecture end-to-end

* Care about performance, correctness and reliability

* Thrive in small, highly technical engineering teams

If you’d like to work on some of the most technically challenging backend systems in the industry, let's chat!