Senior Backend Engineer

NexBloc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NexBloc in New York City is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, high-calibre team building the systems that keep a high-performance trading platform operating reliably during periods of extreme market volatility.

You’ll tackle latency, correctness and reliability challenges while owning architecture end-to-end and delivering robust, scalable services under load.

Qualifications

• You’re experienced with high-performance backend systems.
• You’ve built production-grade distributed services.
• You have strong ownership of architecture and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• - Designing and building low-latency backend systems
• - Developing real-time risk and liquidation infrastructure
• - Architecting performance-critical distributed services
• - Solving complex numerical and systems engineering problems
• - Building software that must remain reliable under extreme load
• - Owning projects from architecture through production

Skills

Rust

C++

Go

Python

TypeScript

Distributed Systems

Job description

Highly Competitive Salary + Equity + Performance Bonus

I'm partnering with a well-funded technology company building mission-critical infrastructure for digital markets.

They're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, high-calibre engineering team focused on building the systems that keep a high-performance trading platform operating reliably during periods of extreme market volatility.

You’re solving complex engineering challenges where latency, correctness and reliability are absolutely critical.

You’re working on

• Designing and building low-latency backend systems
• Developing real-time risk and liquidation infrastructure
• Architecting performance-critical distributed services
• Solving complex numerical and systems engineering problems
• Building software that must remain reliable under extreme load
• Owning projects from architecture through production

Tech

• Rust
• C++
• Go
• Python
• TypeScript
• Distributed Systems

You’re likely enjoy this role if you have experience with

• Trading platforms
• Exchanges
• Crypto
• Market making
• Quantitative systems
• High-performance backend engineering

We’re looking for engineers who

• Have 7+ years building production systems
• Can own architecture end-to-end
• Care about performance, correctness and reliability
• Thrive in small, highly technical engineering teams