van kaizenNew York, NY
Software Engineer, Backend (Rust) – Crypto Trading
Software Engineer, Backend (Rust) – Crypto Trading
Software Engineer, Backend (Rust) – Crypto Trading
van kaizenNew York, NY
Apply for this role →4 days ago
Location: New York City or San Francisco
On-site, 5 days/week Comp: $185K–$300K + EquityOur client is a well-funded, early-stage crypto trading company building high-performance infrastructure for the next generation of digital asset markets. They’re looking for a Backend Software Engineer with strong production Rust experience who enjoys solving difficult systems problems and wants significant technical ownership. What you’ll work on: Build high-performance risk, liquidation and trading systems Develop real-time, low-latency backend infrastructure processing live market data Build REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times Work with Rust, Tokio, asynchronous programming, distributed systems and blockchain Solve complex problems around concurrency, state management and high-throughput event streams
What we’re looking for:
- 2–4 years of backend/software engineering experience
- Strong production Rust experience
- Experience with Tokio / asynchronous programming
- Background in real-time, high-throughput or low-latency systems
- Experience with relational, time-series and/or key-value databases
- Fintech, crypto, trading, HFT or blockchain experience
- Genuine interest in financial markets and Web3Strong systems fundamentals and ideally meaningful Rust/C side projects or GitHub work
This is a small, highly technical team backed by $15M+ in funding, where engineers can have significant impact and work directly with experienced founders and senior engineers.
U.S. work authorization required. No sponsorship available.
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