Full-Stack Software Engineer

Wwshemi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully covered medical, dental, and VIS

Equity ownership

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Onyx is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to build the systems and consumer experiences at the center of our platform. You’ll work across TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, shipping product features and backend services used by customers and our internal teams.

You’ll own projects from idea to production, collaborating with product, design, trading, and operations. Expect to contribute across the stack and take on broader responsibilities as the platform grows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Production-grade applications across frontend and backend.
• Good understanding of relational databases and data consistency.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and AWS in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship full-stack features using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Develop customer-facing trading experiences across web and mobile.
• Build backend services supporting markets, orders, execution, positions, balances, and settlement.
• Design reliable APIs, real-time systems, and PostgreSQL workflows.
• Build and maintain production infrastructure in AWS.
• Integrate with exchanges, liquidity providers, payment systems, and financial partners.
• Improve system performance, observability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Partner with product, design, trading, and operations from concept through launch.
• Take ownership of the features and services you ship, including their operation in production.

Skills

3+ yrs exp

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Real-time systems

PostgreSQL

AWS

Full-stack

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

WebSockets

REST APIs

Job description

Compensation $140000–180000 (period not stated)

Department: ENGINEERING

Onyx is building the market for people who enjoy being right. Our consumer platform lets people take positions on what happens next across sports, prediction markets, crypto, financial markets, politics, culture, and real-world events.

More than one million users have already found Onyx. Now, we’re bringing that same energy into regulated financial markets through Onyx Predictions, a CFTC-registered introducing broker and NFA member.

In June 2026, we raised a $20 million Series A led by Payward, the parent company of Kraken, valuing Onyx at $220 million less than one year after emerging from beta. Our team comes from Jane Street, DraftKings, Robinhood, xAI, SIG, HRT, and Harvard.

We’re building Onyx in New York with a small team, serious momentum, and no interest in moving slowly. The product is live. The market is growing. The category is still ours to define.

The Role.

We’re hiring a Full Stack Engineer to build the systems and consumer experiences at the center of Onyx. You’ll work across TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, shipping product features and backend services used by customers and our internal teams.

You’ll own projects from the initial idea through production and work directly with product, design, trading, and operations. You’ll have room to work across the stack and take on broader responsibilities as the platform grows.

What You’ll Own:

• Build and ship full-stack features using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Develop customer-facing trading experiences across web and mobile.
• Build backend services supporting markets, orders, execution, positions, balances, and settlement.
• Design reliable APIs, real-time systems, and PostgreSQL workflows.
• Build and maintain production infrastructure in AWS.
• Integrate with exchanges, liquidity providers, payment systems, and financial partners.
• Improve system performance, observability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Partner with product, design, trading, and operations from concept through launch.
• Take ownership of the features and services you ship, including their operation in production.

You’ll Do Well Here If You:

• Have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Are highly proficient in TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Have built and maintained production applications across the stack.
• Understand relational databases, transactions, concurrency, and data consistency.
• Have production experience with PostgreSQL and AWS.
• Are comfortable building real-time, concurrent, or event-driven systems.
• Can move between frontend, backend, and infrastructure based on product needs.
• Can lead technical projects from planning through production.
• Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, reliability, and customer experience.

Even Better If You Have:

• Experience with React Native or Expo.
• Built products in trading, crypto, payments, prediction markets, or consumer fintech.
• Worked with WebSockets, live data feeds, streaming systems, or event-driven architecture.
• Experience with order management, execution, market data, settlement, or broker connectivity.
• Helped scale a consumer application through rapid growth.

Location:

• This role is based in our NoHo, Manhattan office, with core in-office days Tuesday through Thursday.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Onyx is unable to provide employment sponsorship for this position.

Compensation and Benefits:

The current Onyx full-stack listing gives an anticipated base salary range of $140,000-$180,000, depending on experience, impact, and scope, plus a target bonus and equity.

• fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
• meaningful equity ownership
• commuter benefits

Why Onyx?

Onyx is for people with conviction.

We hire talented people, give them meaningful ownership, and expect them to use it. Our teams stay small, the work stays visible, and the distance between an idea and production stays short.

Onyx moves quickly because our markets move quickly. Titles matter less than judgment, initiative, and the quality of what you ship. Good ideas can come from anywhere, but the person willing to make the call is expected to follow it through.

We value people who are ambitious without ego, intellectually honest, comfortable with uncertainty, and energized by hard problems. We debate openly, decide quickly, and take responsibility for the result.