Distributed Systems Engineer

A deeply technical financial-markets engineering firm is rebuilding modern exchange infrastructure from the ground up. The team’s mission is to create a trading venue that delivers consistent fairness, predictable performance, and uncompromising reliability for every participant.
The organization is small, selective, and built around customer-obsessed engineers and researchers who thrive on first-principles thinking. The environment is fast, collaborative, and focused on solving hard technical problems that directly shape real-world market outcomes. Every engineer owns meaningful components, ships quickly, and contributes to a system where microseconds matter and code quality determines user trust.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize a high-throughput, low-latency trading system.
• Contribute to core components such as the matching engine, trading APIs, or market-data pipelines.
• Design, implement, and maintain production-ready systems with a performance mindset.
• Collaborate closely in an in-person, fast-moving engineering environment.

Requirements

• Strong systems programming experience in C, C++, Go, or Rust.
• Deep technical capability with broad problem-solving range.
• Preference for rapid prototyping and proof-of-concepts.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to deliver robust, high-quality code in production environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Go.
• Prior work on matching engines or trading infrastructure.
• Knowledge of consensus protocols such as Raft, Paxos, or similar.
• Experience with large-scale or multi-tenant distributed systems.
• Open-source contributions or experience leading complex engineering projects.