Rust Backend Engineer for Real-Time Crypto Trading

Epitria Consulting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Epitria Consulting is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend Systems with production Rust experience to help build backend infrastructure behind a real-time crypto trading platform. You’ll work on asynchronous, high-throughput systems in a fast-paced startup environment in San Francisco.

The role emphasizes live market data processing, low-latency services, and collaboration with in-person teams to deliver millisecond-level, resilient software.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of backend software engineering experience.
• Meaningful production experience with Rust.
• Experience with asynchronous programming (Tokio or equivalents).
• Experience building real-time, high-throughput services.
• Experience with low-latency or trading systems.
• Proficiency with multiple database types (relational, time-series, or key-value).
• Startup environment experience.
• Fintech, crypto, trading, or blockchain exposure.
• Genuine interest in trading and financial markets.
• Strong backend and systems-engineering fundamentals.
• Willingness to work from SF office 5 days/week.
• Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines that manage risk and improve capital efficiency in volatile markets.
• Design and implement blockchain state machines supporting trading, settlement, and risk operations.
• Develop services that maintain consistent state across asynchronous processes using voting, consensus, and coordination mechanisms.
• Process live market data and coordinate time-sensitive actions across trading venues.
• Manage WebSocket streams and other real-time workflows.
• Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times.

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous programming

Distributed systems

High-throughput backend

REST APIs

WebSocket APIs

Docker

Team collaboration

Tools

Tokio

Docker

REST APIs

WebSocket APIs

Relational databases

Time-series databases

Job description

Epitria Consulting is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend Systems with production Rust experience to help build backend infrastructure behind a real-time crypto trading platform. You’ll work on asynchronous, high-throughput systems in a fast-paced startup environment in San Francisco.

The role emphasizes live market data processing, low-latency services, and collaboration with in-person teams to deliver millisecond-level, resilient software.