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.
Requirements
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
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 185,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
- Medical, dental and HSA coverage
- Retirement plan with employer match
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Production experience with Rust
- Genuine, demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets
- Comfort working with relational, time-series, and key-value databases
- Experience shipping server-side software where speed and heavy load matter
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous programming
- Prior experience working at a startup
- Self-directed projects in a systems programming language
- Experience with latency-sensitive or trading software
- Experience in fintech, trading, or blockchain
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
