Rust Backend Engineer - Real-Time Crypto Trading

Morgan Pinnacle Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Pinnacle Group is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend Systems with production Rust experience to join our New York team. You will build the backend infrastructure behind a real-time trading platform, focusing on asynchronous programming, performance, and distributed systems in a high-bandwidth, in-person environment.

Responsibilities include building risk engines, blockchain state machines, and services that coordinate across asynchronous processes, with emphasis on low-latency REST and

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience as a backend software engineer with in-depth Rust experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines to manage risk and improve capital efficiency in volatile markets.
• Design and implement the 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

Tools

Tokio

Docker

REST APIs

WebSocket

Job description

Morgan Pinnacle Group is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend Systems with production Rust experience to join our New York team. You will build the backend infrastructure behind a real-time trading platform, focusing on asynchronous programming, performance, and distributed systems in a high-bandwidth, in-person environment.

Responsibilities include building risk engines, blockchain state machines, and services that coordinate across asynchronous processes, with emphasis on low-latency REST and