Software Engineer, Backend Systems – Crypto Trading - Rust

You will help build the backend infrastructure behind a real-time crypto trading platform at a startup with engineering teams in New York City and San Francisco. This role is for a backend engineer with strong asynchronous programming and systems knowledge, a performance-driven mindset, and a genuine interest in trading and financial markets. You will work on technically challenging systems involving live market data, risk management, trading venues, and millisecond-level response times. You must work from the applicable office 5 days per week.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines that manage risk and improve capital efficiency in volatile markets
• Design and implement blockchain state machines supporting trading, settlement, and risk operations
• Develop services that maintain consistent state across asynchronous processes using voting, consensus, and coordination mechanisms
• Process live market data and coordinate time-sensitive actions across trading venues
• Manage WebSocket streams and other real-time workflows
• Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times

What you bring

• 2-4 years of relevant backend software engineering experience
• Meaningful, hands-on production experience with Rust
• Experience with asynchronous programming, including Tokio or directly comparable Rust-based asynchronous systems
• Experience building backend services for real-time, high-throughput systems
• Experience with low-latency or trading systems
• Proficiency with multiple database types, including relational, time-series, or key-value databases
• Meaningful experience working in a startup environment
• Experience in fintech, crypto, trading, high-frequency trading, or blockchain
• Genuine, demonstrable interest in trading and financial markets
• Meaningful personal side projects, especially in Rust or C
• Strong backend and systems-engineering fundamentals
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, highly collaborative, in-person environment
• Authorization to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship

About Epitria Consulting

Epitria Consulting's client is a crypto trading platform startup with engineering teams in New York City and San Francisco, building real-time systems for live market data, risk management, and trading operations.