Raydar
Backend Software Engineer
$185K–$300K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
About the job
Own backend engineering for a latency-sensitive financial platform, building risk and transaction services, coordinating distributed state, processing live data, and supporting client interfaces.
What you'll do
- Build risk management services and state machines for transaction, settlement, and risk workflows.
- Maintain data consistency across asynchronous processes and orchestrate live data feeds and time-sensitive actions.
- Build fast, dependable request-response and streaming interfaces for client applications.
What they ask for
- Demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets.
- Production experience with Rust and a track record shipping server-side software for demanding, low-delay workloads, with systems-level depth.
- Solid grounding in asynchronous programming and working knowledge of relational, time-series, and key-value databases.
- Prior startup experience; personal side projects, ideally in Rust or C, available on a public code profile.
Nice to have
- Background at a fintech, crypto, or high-frequency trading firm; low-latency or trading-systems experience.
- Experience at a venture-backed startup.
Pay
USD 185,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Rust, C
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