Software Engineer, Backend (Rust) - Crypto Trading at Van Kaizen Software Engineer, Backend (Rust) - Crypto Trading at Van Kaizen in Weehawken, New Jersey Posted in about 9 hours ago.

Type:

full-time

Location:

New York City or San Francisco On-site, 5 days/week

Comp:

$185K-$300K + Equity Our client is a well-funded, early-stage crypto trading company building high-performance infrastructure for the next generation of digital asset markets. They're looking for a Backend Software Engineer with strong production Rust experience who enjoys solving difficult systems problems and wants significant technical ownership. What you'll work on: Build high-performance risk, liquidation and trading systems Develop real-time, low-latency backend infrastructure processing live market data Build REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times Work with Rust, Tokio, asynchronous programming, distributed systems and blockchain Solve complex problems around concurrency, state management and high-throughput event streams What we're looking for: 2-4 years of backend/software engineering experience Strong production Rust experience Experience with Tokio / asynchronous programming Background in real-time, high-throughput or low-latency systems Experience with relational, time-series and/or key-value databases Fintech, crypto, trading, HFT or blockchain experience Genuine interest in financial markets and Web3 Strong systems fundamentals and ideally meaningful Rust/C side projects or GitHub work This is a small, highly technical team backed by$15M+ in funding, where engineers can have significant impact and work directly with experienced founders and senior engineers. U.S. work authorization required. No sponsorship available.