The Role
Join Moment as a Software Engineer to develop scalable systems for the financial market. Design and maintain core services and lead projects.
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Quick Facts
- Role: Distributed Systems Engineer
- Location: 5 days/week @ NYC HQ
- Base salary: $200K to $325K
- Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
Moment builds next-generation trading and portfolio management technology. Our core product suite includes high-throughput market data pipelines, automated smart order routing algorithms, real-time portfolio ledgering and position tracking, and high-cardinality portfolio optimization.
Founded in 2023 by a team of quant traders and researchers from Citadel and Jane Street, we've raised over $100M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners and now power mission critical workflows for financial institutions with over $8T+ of assets.
You're a good fit if you're an engineer with...
- Strong logical reasoning and the ability to simplify complex problems. You can build clear mental models and approach complicated systems methodically.
- Solid understanding of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and general systems fundamentals.
- Demonstrated experience architecting or contributing to systems that solve complex business challenges — especially around scalability, distributed systems, and large data volumes.
- A willingness to just go figure stuff out :)
Even better if you have experience with...
- Golang, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka, ClickHouse, and cloud functions (e.g., AWS Lambda).
- Event-driven systems, trading systems, portfolio management or accounting systems.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- $150 monthly gym stipend.
- Free lunch and dinner.
$200K to $325K base salary + initial equity grant + annual performance-based equity bonuses.
Top Skills
AWS
C++
Go
Java
Kafka
Postgres
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The Company
What We Do
Moment is the only modern fixed income trading and data solution exclusively designed for wealth platforms.
Founded in 2022 by former fixed income quants at leading prop shops and backed by world-class investors, Moment has quickly established itself as the leading fixed income infrastructure provider for global fintechs, traditional brokerages, and RIAs. Our APIs power automated execution, data and analytics, and risk management for firms collectively representing 100B+ in assets.
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