Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Trading Infrastructure

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Full benefits (medical, vision, dental

Flexible PTO

Remote-first team across manycountries

Alumni from Goldman Sachs, Blackrock,

Investors: Pantera, Founders Fund, and

Job summary

Ondo Finance is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and scale low-latency systems powering our trading stack across on-chain and traditional venues. You will own critical components, from pricing to PnL accounting, in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

The role focuses on Go or Rust, real-time data processing, and cloud services, with opportunities to contribute across our market-making platform and risk controls.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong programming ability in Go or Rust.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Experience with real-time/latency-sensitive systems.
• Interest in Web3/DeFi or trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-latency backend systems and APIs for quoting, hedging, and executing across on-chain and traditional venues.
• Collaborate with the trading team to define interfaces between pricing, execution, and market data services.
• Own integrations with market data providers, exchanges, and on-chain venues, including feed handling and order execution.
• Build reconciliation and data-integrity tooling so positions, fills, and PnL stay consistent across live trading state.
• Establish and enforce backend engineering standards, best practices, and security protocols across the stack.

Skills

Go/Rust

Distributed systems

Real-time systems

Cloud infrastructure

Trading systems

Tools

AWS

Databento

SIP feeds

Job description

Ondo Finance is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and scale low-latency systems powering our trading stack across on-chain and traditional venues. You will own critical components, from pricing to PnL accounting, in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

The role focuses on Go or Rust, real-time data processing, and cloud services, with opportunities to contribute across our market-making platform and risk controls.