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Global Unlimited PTO

  • Own core exchange backend systems, including order matching and position management for perpetual futures.
  • Build and optimize the matching engine through profiling and reducing lock contention.
  • Design for correctness at scale with queueing and backpressure mechanisms.

Rust Distributed Systems Observability

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$170,000–$240,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale mission-critical order and execution management infrastructure in Rust.
  • Design systems balancing low-latency execution, fault tolerance, and correctness across distributed trading workflows.
  • Translate evolving regulatory and market structure requirements into reliable, testable platform capabilities.

Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm modernizing the brokerage ecosystem with a cloud-native clearing and custody system. Founded in 2018, the company is a small, growing team with a meritocratic culture that champions collaboration.

Europe US

  • Build and maintain core market data infrastructure in Rust, focusing on ingestion, processing, storage, and serving of high-volume real-time data.
  • Solve practical problems specific to real-time market data, including cross-exchange pricing differences, data quality, and latency.
  • Bring real market data or trading systems knowledge into engineering decisions and communicate clearly with the team.

Douro Labs builds Pyth Pro, real-time market data infrastructure distributing institutional-grade price feeds to exchanges and trading firms. The company has a distributed team across the US, South America, Europe, and Asia, with a strong concentration in Europe, and a culture of independent work and growth.

$175,000–$200,000/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Work on features to increase speed and functionality of trading infrastructure, including new algorithms and exchange integrations.
  • Play an active role in executing system architecture and roadmap, collaborating with Product Management.
  • Grow to become an expert in entire trading systems and use deductive reasoning to solve complex problems.

sFOX is a full-service prime dealer that unites liquidity from over 30 exchanges and OTC desks. Founded in 2014, the company is backed by prominent investors and has a rapidly growing team.

Global

  • Design, build, and operate feed services that serve market data across multiple markets with low latency and high reliability.
  • Keep the feed available and correct when things break, owning SLOs and overall health of your services.
  • Identify technical debt and reliability risks, improve systems, and support engineers through code reviews.

Thndr is on a mission to make investing simple and accessible for everyone across the Middle East and North Africa. Since launching in 2019 and going through Y Combinator, Thndr has grown into Egypt's number one investing app with millions of users, backed by Tiger Global, Prosus Ventures, and others.

Europe

  • Design and build mission-critical trading systems using Rust and AWS.
  • Take ownership of high-impact trading infrastructure and set technical direction.
  • Drive continuous improvement in system performance, reliability, and operability.

Keyrock is a highly-profitable firm specializing in capital markets and trading systems. They operate with a global, fully-remote team and emphasize a fast-paced, collaborative culture.

Americas

  • Build Alpaca's algo trading platform to deliver high quality and performance for users.
  • Design and architect the platform by wearing many hats in a small team, writing tons of code.
  • Leverage deep knowledge in frontend and backend, databases, distributed systems, and CPU-level hardware for high throughput.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more. Our team of 400+ globally distributed members thrives on diversity and collaboration, backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

US

  • Own the architecture of the Nexus Exchange end-to-end while staying hands-on in production code.
  • Lead the engineering org, managing timelines, roadmaps, and resourcing across senior engineers and pods.
  • Drive product and customer outcomes with high-frequency iteration and a business-first mindset.

Nexus is a blockchain built to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system, unifying infrastructure across chains. Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, the cross-continental team of engineers and cryptographers is backed by investors like Pantera and Lightspeed.

Global

  • Monitor and trade prediction markets in real time across Kalshi, Polymarket, and other venues, implementing strategies for sports, elections, weather, and more.
  • Improve the whole stack as part of a greenfield project, with freedom to build systems while covering key events like major sports games.
  • Wear many hats, combining trading, coding, data analysis, and collaboration to drive P&L and business growth.

Wintermute is one of the largest algorithmic trading companies in digital assets, providing liquidity across major cryptocurrency exchanges and OTC trading solutions. It is a prominent player in digital asset markets with a collaborative, entrepreneurial culture and a startup vibe.

$172,000–$242,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own and scale distributed systems for orchestration, APIs, and data paths.
  • Apply query-engine expertise to optimize work execution and data movement.
  • Exercise strong technical judgment on ambiguous problems.

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms used for mission-critical workloads. This remote-first company fosters a supportive, high-performance culture that empowers team members to do their best work.

Americas

  • Design and architect the algo trading platform with deep knowledge in frontend, backend, databases, and distributed systems.
  • Write high-quality code and make critical decisions to deliver the best customer experience.
  • Work with low-level CPU hardware and concurrency for high throughput and availability.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure company. The team is 380+ globally distributed members with a culture of curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

Europe

  • Own end-to-end test coverage across the entire system, including order matching, settlement, margin, and liquidation.
  • Define test strategies for new products like spot, perpetuals, and event contracts before they ship.
  • Build automated test infrastructure using AI tools for generated test cases, agent-driven testing, and LLM-assisted triage.

Somnia builds and operates high-performance decentralized technology, including the fastest EVM L1 blockchain. The team moves at startup speed with exchange-grade standards, offering remote work and token incentives.

Taiwan

  • Own the core financial engine including order routing, execution lifecycles, and internal ledgers.
  • Build resilient, high-throughput infrastructure for scaling from early users to hundreds of thousands of investors.
  • Take end-to-end operational ownership including monitoring, incident response, and on-call rotations.

Nahc is a seed-stage venture-backed cross-border neobank and retail brokerage built for global investors, bridging financial borders between the US and Asian markets. The company is small and emphasizes absolute trust, rock-solid infrastructure, and high agency for its founding engineering team.

UK 6w PTO

  • You'll build complex full-stack features in TypeScript and Rust, from trader-facing interfaces to application services.
  • You'll work on real-time market-data presentation and high-throughput, low-latency code across FX, Equities, and Cryptocurrency.
  • You'll design and implement distributed systems and real-time data over REST, WebSockets, and network protocols.

Reactive Markets is an OTC trading platform that handles over $50 billion in daily trading volumes across FX, Equities, and Cryptocurrency. Our engineering team is small, senior, and deeply invested in building cutting-edge, reliable, high-performance systems.

US 3w PTO 20w maternity 20w paternity

  • Design and build core financial systems including trading, ledger, and billing.
  • Develop systems for transaction processing, reconciliation, and portfolio state management.
  • Build and scale real-time and batch data pipelines.

Arta leverages AI and digital tools to make financial products accessible to a broader global audience. The company values trust, teamwork, and adaptability.

$200,000–$350,000/yr
US

  • Build the core AI platform that powers a copilot inside a new, AI-native trading experience.
  • Develop a high-performance backend in Rust supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of model plus tools.
  • Design robust APIs and runtime components for AI capabilities including authentication, rate limits, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks.

Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. Founded in 2018, the company has built a cloud-native clearing and custody system and supports billions in trading volume per day, with a culture focused on collaboration and diversity.