Rust Backend Engineer for Real-Time Trading & Blockchain

CoffeeSpace; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CoffeeSpace in New York, NY is seeking a backend systems engineer to help build the core infrastructure behind a real-time trading platform. You will work on a high-performance backend, focusing on asynchronous execution, system design, and collaboration in a fast-paced in-person environment.

The role emphasizes building risk engines, blockchain state machines, and scalable services that coordinate live market data across venues with low-latency REST and WebSocket APIs.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in backend systems engineering.
• Proficiency in Rust and experience with asynchronous programming.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and blockchain technologies.
• Experience with REST and WebSocket APIs, and Docker.
• Thrives in a collaborative, in-person work environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines to manage risk and improve capital efficiency in volatile markets.
• Design and implement blockchain state machines that power 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 actions across trading venues, managing WebSocket streams and time-sensitive workflows.
• Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs that power the trading interface with millisecond-level response times.

Skills

Rust

Asynchronous programming

Distributed systems

Blockchain technologies

REST APIs

WebSocket APIs

Docker

Tools

Docker

Job description

CoffeeSpace in New York, NY is seeking a backend systems engineer to help build the core infrastructure behind a real-time trading platform. You will work on a high-performance backend, focusing on asynchronous execution, system design, and collaboration in a fast-paced in-person environment.

The role emphasizes building risk engines, blockchain state machines, and scalable services that coordinate live market data across venues with low-latency REST and WebSocket APIs.