Raydar
Backend Software Engineer
$185K–$300K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
About the job
Own backend engineering for a latency-sensitive financial platform, building risk services, transaction workflows, consistent data processes, and high-performance APIs.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain risk management services and transaction-processing state machines.
- Keep data consistent across asynchronous processes and coordinate live feeds and time-sensitive workflows.
- Create high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs.
What they ask for
- Production experience with Rust.
- Demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets.
- Experience with relational, time-series, and key-value databases; server-side software under heavy load; and asynchronous programming.
- Prior startup experience.
Nice to have
- Self-directed systems programming projects outside of work.
- Experience in latency-sensitive or trading software, fintech, trading, or blockchain.
Pay
USD 185,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Rust, REST, WebSocket
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