Backend Software Engineer — Rust & Real-Time Crypto Trading at HireNow Staffing, Inc. Direct Placement Online Services in New York, New York, United States
- Company: HireNow Staffing, Inc. Direct Placement Online Services
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $185,000–$300,000 annually
- Experience: 4+ years
Overview
About the job Backend Software Engineer — Rust & Real-Time Crypto Trading Backend Software Engineer — Rust & Real-Time Crypto Trading Company: HireNow Staffing (Direct Placement Partner) Location: New York, New York Employment: Full-Time | Direct Hire
Job description
- About the job Backend Software Engineer — Rust & Real-Time Crypto Trading
- Backend Software Engineer — Rust & Real-Time Crypto Trading
- Company: HireNow Staffing (Direct Placement Partner)
- Location: New York, New York
- Employment: Full-Time | Direct Hire
- Work Arrangement: Onsite, five days per week
- Base Salary: $185,000–$300,000 annually
- Equity: Competitive equity package
- Visa Sponsorship: Not available
Responsibilities
- Risk and Trading Infrastructure
- Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines that support capital efficiency in volatile markets.
- Process live market data and coordinate time-sensitive actions across trading venues.
- Develop reliable backend services for real-time, high-throughput trading workflows.
- Distributed Systems and Blockchain
- Design and implement blockchain state machines supporting trading, settlement, and risk operations.
- Maintain consistent state across asynchronous processes using voting, consensus, and coordination mechanisms.
- Address concurrency, reliability, and performance challenges across distributed services.
- APIs and Performance
- Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times.
- Manage WebSocket streams and other real-time data workflows.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with a small engineering team to deliver and improve production systems.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of relevant backend software engineering experience
- Meaningful, hands-on production Rust experience
- Asynchronous programming experience with Tokio or directly comparable Rust-based systems
- Experience building real-time, high-throughput backend services
- Experience with low-latency or trading systems
- Experience with multiple database types, such as relational, time-series, or key-value databases
- Meaningful startup experience
- Relevant experience in fintech, crypto, trading, high-frequency trading, or blockchain
- Demonstrable interest in trading and financial markets
- Meaningful personal technical projects, particularly in Rust or C
- Strong backend and systems-engineering fundamentals
- Willingness to work onsite in New York City five days per week
- Ability to meet the employer's stated work-authorization requirements without current or future sponsorship
- Production Rust is essential. General backend experience or proficiency in another systems language does not replace this requirement.
- No separate optional qualifications were specified. Particularly strong evidence of fit includes:
- Direct ownership of production Rust services
- Experience with distributed state consistency and coordination
- REST and WebSocket API development
- Measurable improvements to system latency, throughput, or reliability
- Personal Rust or C projects demonstrating technical depth
- Experience delivering critical infrastructure within a small startup team
Skills
Required
- Production Rust
- Low-latency or trading systems
- Startup experience
- Onsite work in New York City
Preferred
- REST and WebSocket API development
- Personal Rust or C projects
Benefits
- Annual Base Salary
- $185,000–$300,000, based on qualifications and experience
- Equity
- Competitive equity package
- Grant details and vesting terms to be discussed during the hiring process
About HireNow Staffing, Inc. Direct Placement Online Services
HireNow Staffing is recruiting a backend engineer with meaningful production Rust experience to help build the infrastructure behind a real-time crypto trading platform. This opportunity is designed for an engineer who understands asynchronous systems, cares about performance, and has a demonstrable interest in trading and financial markets. You will work on risk engines, live market data, distributed state coordination, and APIs where millisecond-level response times matter. The hiring company is a small startup building a unified trading experience across multiple crypto venues and products. Engineers work closely with founders and senior technical colleagues; with significant ownership of the systems, they build. HireNow Staffing is acting as a direct placement partner.