The Opportunity
As a Backend Engineer on the Nascent engineering team, you will design and build the next generation of our world-class trading system. You’ll take ownership of critical components, including design, implementation, and maintenance, and integrate directly with financial exchanges. From developing backend architecture in Rust to rigorous code reviews and testing, you’ll champion quality engineering practices across your work. Along the way, you’ll bring structure to ambiguous problems, help shape system architecture and interface design, and serve as an integral partner to our trading team. You’ll thrive in this role if you love having the freedom to move fast, think creatively, and solve tough problems with a builder’s mindset. You care deeply about doing things right without getting bogged down, you’re comfortable adapting quickly as requirements evolve, and you find as much joy in starting a project as you do in refining and optimizing it over time. If you’re excited to dive deep into Rust, contribute to complex and iterative system development, and help shape the future of trading and crypto, we’d love to work with you. This is a remote position with opportunities for in-person collaboration, requiring core working hours within 5 hours of Eastern Standard Time.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design and build the next phase of a world-class trading system.
- Support development and implementation of a backend, microservice-driven, Rust architecture.
- Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, and apply and be a proponent of quality engineering practices.
- Use documentation and specifications to build integrations between selected exchanges and our internal systems.
- Take full ownership of multiple components including design, implementation, and maintenance.
- Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous problems, identifying key requirements and proposing actionable solutions.
- Contribute to system architecture and interface design.
About you
- You crave autonomy and agency to deliver against a shared vision and find real joy in providing solutions to complex problems
- You are resourceful and can toe the line between moving fast and breaking things and moving methodically to get things right the first time
- You are as excited by starting a project as you are completing, maintaining and continually optimizing it
- You proactively contribute creative ideas and novel approaches to product and engineering challenges, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
- You are extremely agile and have a strong ability to adapt quickly to evolving requirements.
- You thrive in less structured environments and are at your best when driving and delivering results with the freedom to build and execute your own plan
Preferred experience
- 2-8 years of full-time software engineering experience, ideally as a systems programmer (Rust, C++, GO). Bonus if you have experience with and/or interest in learning Rust.
- Experience beyond testing (e.g. quality processes, verification & validation)
- Experience building scalable, performant, production-level applications with regular release cycles
- Performance sensitive engineering including multi-threading, streaming data, and concurrency
- Distributed systems, micro services
- Experience building trading systems is a strong plus, with an interest in and enthusiasm for financial markets or the crypto space.
