Backend Engineer (Rust) US (San Francisco Preferred)

Hill Associates, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Equity opportunity

Career growth

Job summary

Hill Associates, Inc. is building the operating system to power private markets. We are forming a small team to create core infrastructure, financial ledgers, and enterprise APIs for a fast-growing fintech platform.

You'll own end-to-end financial systems from conception to production, ship daily, and implement CQRS/eventsourcing across services while leveraging Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and cloud/Kubernetes tooling.

Qualifications

• Own the execution of critical financial systems from conception through to production.
• Ability to build systems that handle complex legal and regulatory requirements.
• Ship code daily and value developer experience (DX).

Responsibilities

• Develop core investing infrastructure using event-based CQRS patterns.
• Build and maintain financial ledgers that track assets with high accuracy.
• Design and build scalable APIs used by enterprisepartners with strong focus on DX.

Tools

Rust

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

API design

Job description

Hill.com is building the operating system to power the private markets. Founded by Andrew Benson, Hill is a marketplace for retail investors to trade pre-IPO companies. Hill is backed by HF0 and advised by the former president of Charles Schwab and Fidelity. Prior to Hill, Andrew founded River.com, a Bitcoin financial services company managing $3B in assets and backed by top venture capital firms (M13, Polychain, Craft Ventures, Slow Ventures, and Peter Thiel).

Hill is on a mission to bring the private markets to every household by 2030. We are starting with the ability to trade pre-IPO companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and more. The current state of pre-IPO stock trading is that transactions often take 60 days to close—we bring this down to 60 seconds.

We are forming a small team of highly talented individuals to achieve our ambitious mission.

The role

Whatyou'll build

• Core investing infrastructure — Event-based systems handling order matching, settlement, and reconciliation using CQRS patterns
• Financial ledgers — Hill's core accounting system that track billions in assets with perfect accuracy
• API build-out – Designand build APIsused by enterprisepartners with a strong focus on scalability and Developer Experience

Aboutyou

• You can own the execution ofcritical financialsystemsfromconceptionthrough to production
• You know how to build systemsthat handle complexlegaland regulatory requirements
• You ship codedaily- we are builders, not managers
• Rust is your primary tool and you have strong opinions about how best it should be used
• CQRS/eventsourcing isn't just theory- you've implemented it
• Youcan designAPIsthat scale to enterprisecustomers and hold strong opinions on DX
• You code 80%+ of your time and want to keep it that way
• You understand that legalcompliance is a feature, not a burden
• You're familiar with our tech stack (Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform) and aren't afraid to work across the stack
• Early team buildingcritical financial infrastructure
• Yourcode willhandlebillionsin transactions
• Complextechnicalchallenges(notanotherCRUD app)
• NoBS, high-velocity environment

We're funded, growingfast, and need engineers who wantto build, not talkabout building.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Opportunity to shape a high-growth fintech company
• Accelerated career growth and development