Senior Backend Engineer (Trading Infrastructure)

Ethereum Job Board; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first team

Flexible PTO

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Ondo Finance seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join the market-making team, building real-time systems for quoting and hedging tokenized markets across onchain and traditional venues. The role centers on Rust/Go, live production risk, and high ownership in a remote-friendly startup environment.

You will work on low-latency services, integrate market data, and contribute to architecture while ensuring data integrity and security.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience with Go or Rust.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and real-time or latency-sensitive services.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, third-party integrations, and high-throughput production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design low-latency services and APIs for quoting, hedging, and execution across traditional and onchain venues.
• Define interfaces among pricing, execution, and market-data services with the trading team.
• Integrate market-data providers, exchanges, and onchain venues, including feed handling and order execution.
• Build reconciliation and data-integrity tools for positions, fills, and profit-and-loss accounting.
• Establish backend engineering and security standards and contribute to architecture and code reviews.

Skills

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Web3/DeFi

APIs

Low-latency

Job description

Remote

Senior

Ondo Finance develops institutional-grade, blockchain-enabled investment products and tokenized funds.

About the Role

This Backend Engineer joins Ondo's market-making team to build real-time systems that quote and hedge tokenized markets around the clock across onchain and traditional venues. The senior team works primarily in Rust and Go and owns live production risk.

Responsibilities

• Design low-latency services and APIs for quoting, hedging, and execution across traditional and onchain venues.
• Define interfaces among pricing, execution, and market-data services with the trading team.
• Integrate market-data providers, exchanges, and onchain venues, including feed handling and order execution.
• Build reconciliation and data-integrity tools for positions, fills, and profit-and-loss accounting.
• Establish backend engineering and security standards and contribute to architecture and code reviews.

Requirements

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience and strong Go or Rust skills, with willingness to use both.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, system design, and real-time or latency-sensitive services.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, third-party integrations, and high-throughput production systems.
• Demonstrated interest in Web3, DeFi, or trading systems and comfort with a high-ownership startup environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with market-data protocols, trading or execution infrastructure, crypto venues, and onchain trading.

What Ondo Offers

• Competitive compensation that may include salary, future token rights, and/or equity.
• Benefits, flexible PTO, and a remote-first team.

Ondo Finance develops tokenization and onchain financial products, including Ondo Perps, Ondo Stocks, USDY, and OUSG.