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Software Engineer - Core Financial Platform
$180K–$275K
New York Office · On-site · Full-time · Posted Dec 17, 2025
About the job
Build and maintain core trading, financing, and fund management systems that support trading and money movement.
What you'll do
- Design and architect systems to orchestrate and reconcile complex flows of funds.
- Participate in architecture discussions, planning, and code reviews across the stack.
- Build and maintain core trading, financing, and fund management systems.
What they ask for
- Strong experience with modern backend frameworks, API design, and event-driven systems.
- Strong architecture design and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in at least one of Kotlin, Rust, Java, Go, C/C++, Python, Ruby, or TypeScript.
- Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL and modern build systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Nice to have
- Experience building trading, lending, or asset management systems, or working in fintech or early-stage technology companies.
- Experience with Kotlin backends or Temporal for asynchronous workflow orchestration.
Pay
$180K – $275K (base salary)
Tools
Kotlin, Rust, Java, Go, C/C++, Python, Ruby, TypeScript
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