Backend Software Engineer - Rust

As a Backend Software Engineer at Digivance Solutions, you build high-performance systems powering real-time crypto trading. You work closely with the CTO and senior backend engineers on risk engines, liquidation systems, blockchain state machines, real-time market data, and low-latency APIs for next-generation trading infrastructure that brings together perpetuals, cross-chain spot, and prediction markets into a unified portfolio-margin experience.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines for capital-efficient trading
• Design and implement blockchain state machines for trading, settlement, and risk operations
• Build services that maintain consistent state across asynchronous processes using coordination, voting, and consensus mechanisms
• Process real-time market data and coordinate time-sensitive actions across trading venues
• Develop high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times
• Work on systems designed for high throughput, reliability, and low latency
• Collaborate closely with a small, senior engineering team in an in-person environment

What you bring

• 2-4 years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong production experience with Rust
• Hands-on experience with Rust asynchronous programming, particularly Tokio
• Experience building real-time, high-throughput backend systems
• Experience working with multiple database types, including relational databases, time-series databases, and key-value stores
• Strong understanding of backend/system design and performance optimization
• Genuine and demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech, trading, crypto, blockchain, or financial infrastructure
• Experience with low-latency systems, trading systems, HFT, or high-performance infrastructure
• Strong understanding of WebSockets and real-time systems
• Startup or VC-backed company experience
• Strong GitHub profile demonstrating meaningful systems or Rust projects
• Personal projects in Rust or C, particularly around trading or high-performance systems
• Passion for crypto/Web3 and financial markets

What we offer

• Full-time employment
• On-site work in San Francisco, CA, 5 days per week