Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer | Low-Latency Trading Systems📍 New York City💰 Highly Competitive Salary + Equity + Performance BonusI’m partnering with a well-funded technology company building mission-critical infrastructure for digital markets.They’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, high-calibre engineering team focused on building the systems that keep a high-performance trading platform operating reliably during periods of extreme market volatility.You’ll be solving complex engineering challenges where latency, correctness and reliability are absolutely critical.You’ll be working on* Designing and building low-latency backend systems* Developing real-time risk and liquidation infrastructure* Architecting performance-critical distributed services* Solving complex numerical and systems engineering problems* Building software that must remain reliable under extreme load* Owning projects from architecture through productionTech;* Rust* C++* Go* Python* TypeScript* Distributed SystemsYou’ll likely enjoy this role if you have experience with;* Trading platforms* Exchanges* Low-latency systems* Financial infrastructure* Crypto* Market making* Quantitative systems* High-performance backend engineeringWe’re looking for engineers who;* Have 7+ years building production systems* Enjoy solving difficult technical problems* Can own architecture end-to-end* Care about performance, correctness and reliability* Thrive in small, highly technical engineering teamsIf you’d like to work on some of the most technically challenging backend systems in the industry, let's chat!