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293R3nj9 5b68hs2 yGDbpssj – High-Performance Trading Systems

Location: New York City (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to $230,000 Base + Equity

The Opportunity

I'm working with an early-stage, venture-backed startup in New York City that is building a next-generation trading platform at the intersection of financial markets, distributed systems and blockchain technology.

The company has secured approximately $4M in seed funding from prominent investors across the trading and digital asset ecosystem, including backing from established venture capital firms and leading industry participants.

They're looking for a 293R3nj9 5b68hs2 yGDbpssj to join a small, highly technical team and take ownership of the core systems powering a new decentralised prediction markets platform.

This is a genuine 0-to-1 engineering opportunity where you'll work directly alongside the founders, influence architectural decisions and help shape both the technology and the product.

What You'll Be Working On

You'll take ownership of the backend architecture and infrastructure behind a high-performance trading platform, including:

• Designing and developing a low-latency matching engine supporting a central limit order book (CLOB).

• Building scalable backend services for order entry, trade execution, market data distribution and account management.

• Developing APIs and WebSocket services capable of supporting real-time trading activity.

• Building blockchain indexing services to maintain consistency between off-chain trading activity and on-chain settlement.

• Designing distributed systems with a strong focus on performance, reliability, fault tolerance and data consistency.

• Owning infrastructure architecture, deployment automation and production operations using AWS and Terraform.

• Working with technologies such as Kafka, Redis and PostgreSQL to support real-time data processing and system state management.

• Establishing observability, monitoring, incident response and operational best practices as the platform scales.

• Collaborating directly with the founders on technical strategy, product direction and long-term architecture.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional backend or systems engineering experience.

• Strong programming experience in Rust, ideally building performance-critical production systems. Experience in other systems languages will also be considered.

• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.

• Strong understanding of concurrency, performance optimisation, system reliability and fault tolerance.

• Experience building scalable APIs, event-driven architectures or real-time backend services.

• Comfortable working with AWS, infrastructure-as-code and production infrastructure.

• Experience with databases, caching technologies and messaging systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis or Kafka.

• Ability to independently own complex technical problems from architecture through implementation and deployment.

• A genuine interest in working within an early-stage startup where requirements evolve quickly and engineers have significant autonomy.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to become one of the earliest engineering hires at a well-funded startup tackling complex technical challenges within financial markets.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Own the core backend architecture rather than work on a small component of an established system.

• Build performance-critical trading technology from the ground up.

• Work directly with the founders and have meaningful input into product and technical decisions.

• Help define engineering standards, infrastructure and architectural direction.

• Receive a competitive base salary of up to $230K alongside equity.

• Join at an early stage where your contributions can have a substantial impact on the company's success.