# Backend Software Engineer

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05

**Salary:** USD 185,000–300,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

About the company

Our client is a financial technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own server-side engineering for a latency-sensitive platform, covering risk logic, distributed state handling, live data processing and the interfaces that front-end clients depend on. You will work closely with colleagues in a fully in-person setting.

What you'll do

\- Build and maintain risk management services that help control exposure when conditions are volatile.

\- Design and implement state machines behind core transaction, settlement and risk workflows.

\- Develop services that keep data consistent across concurrent asynchronous processes using coordination and consensus techniques.

\- Ingest live data feeds and orchestrate time-sensitive actions across multiple external systems.

\- Create fast, dependable request-response and streaming interfaces for client applications.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- A genuine, demonstrable interest in trading or financial markets.

\- Production experience with Rust.

\- A track record shipping server-side software for demanding, low-delay workloads, with hands-on systems-level depth beyond data pipeline work.

\- Solid grounding in asynchronous programming.

\- Working knowledge of several database types, including relational, time-series and key-value stores.

\- Prior experience at a startup.

\- Personal side projects, ideally in Rust or C, that can be reviewed on a public code profile.

Bonus points

\- Background at a fintech, crypto or high-frequency trading firm.

\- Low-latency or trading-systems experience.

\- Experience at a venture-backed startup.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 185,000 to 300,000 per year

\- Equity

\- Medical, dental and HSA coverage

\- Retirement plan with employer match

Location and work model

\- New York, NY, United States

\- On-site, 5 days per week in office

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/94ED4B0045/apply)

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