Backend Software Engineer — Rust & Real-Time Crypto Trading
About The Position
HireNow Staffing is recruiting a backend engineer with meaningful production Rust experience to help build the infrastructure behind a real-time crypto trading platform. This opportunity is designed for an engineer who understands asynchronous systems, cares about performance, and has a demonstrable interest in trading and financial markets. You will work on risk engines, live market data, distributed state coordination, and APIs where millisecond-level response times matter. The hiring company is a small startup building a unified trading experience across multiple crypto venues and products. Engineers work closely with founders and senior technical colleagues; with significant ownership of the systems, they build. HireNow Staffing is acting as a direct placement partner.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of relevant backend software engineering experience
- Meaningful, hands-on production Rust experience
- Asynchronous programming experience with Tokio or directly comparable Rust-based systems
- Experience building real-time, high-throughput backend services
- Experience with low-latency or trading systems
- Experience with multiple database types, such as relational, time-series, or key-value databases
- Meaningful startup experience
- Relevant experience in fintech, crypto, trading, high-frequency trading, or blockchain
- Demonstrable interest in trading and financial markets
- Meaningful personal technical projects, particularly in Rust or C
- Strong backend and systems-engineering fundamentals
- Willingness to work onsite in New York City five days per week
- Ability to meet the employer's stated work-authorization requirements without current or future sponsorship
- Production Rust is essential. General backend experience or proficiency in another systems language does not replace this requirement.
Nice To Haves
- Direct ownership of production Rust services
- Experience with distributed state consistency and coordination
- REST and WebSocket API development
- Measurable improvements to system latency, throughput, or reliability
- Personal Rust or C projects demonstrating technical depth
- Experience delivering critical infrastructure within a small startup team
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines that support capital efficiency in volatile markets.
- Process live market data and coordinate time-sensitive actions across trading venues.
- Develop reliable backend services for real-time, high-throughput trading workflows.
- Design and implement blockchain state machines supporting trading, settlement, and risk operations.
- Maintain consistent state across asynchronous processes using voting, consensus, and coordination mechanisms.
- Address concurrency, reliability, and performance challenges across distributed services.
- Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times.
- Manage WebSocket streams and other real-time data workflows.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with a small engineering team to deliver and improve production systems.
Benefits
- Competitive equity package
- Grant details and vesting terms to be discussed during the hiring process
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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