The role
- COMP
- $185K - $300K
- EQUITY
- Competitive equity
- LOCATION
- San Francisco
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 2 - 4 years
- VISA
- None, Visa transfers
- STACK
- Rust, REST API, Docker, C/C++, Cloudflare
- INDUSTRY
- Crypto, Fintech, Finance, Financial Services
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Software Engineer, Backend Systems (SF)
Crypto trading startup unifying perpetuals, spot, and prediction markets under one margin account for retail traders
The company
An early-stage crypto startup building a single trading app where retail traders reach perpetuals, spot, and prediction markets across many venues from one unified margin account.
- STAGE
- Series A-stage
- FUNDING
- $10M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~10 people
JD — the work
About the role
You would help build the backend behind a real-time crypto trading platform, writing production Rust for risk, settlement, market data, and low-latency APIs. The company is a small, well-funded team started by crypto trading veterans, including the builder of a leading order-execution terminal and a former head of a top high-frequency trading firm. It wants someone fluent in async programming and systems fundamentals who is obsessed with performance and enjoys intense, in-person teamwork in San Francisco.
What you'll do
- Develop liquidation and risk engines that keep capital working efficiently when markets swing hard
- Design on-chain state machines driving settlement, risk checks, and trade execution
- Keep state consistent across asynchronous processes with consensus, voting, and other coordination techniques
- Ingest real-time market feeds over WebSockets and orchestrate time-critical actions across many venues
- Ship low-latency WebSocket and REST endpoints that answer the trading UI within milliseconds
What they're looking for
- 2 to 4 years of experience, including production Rust
- Deep fluency in async programming and systems-level concepts
- A performance-first mindset for latency-sensitive systems
- Enthusiasm for high-bandwidth, in-person collaboration on-site in San Francisco
Nice to have
- Exposure to C or C++, Docker, and Cloudflare