Senior Systems Engineer, Low-Latency Trading (Remote)

ParetoX; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and remote work flexibility

Competitive compensation with equity

Job summary

ParetoX is an early-stage technology company building next-generation market infrastructure for trading, financing, and settlement. In this high-impact role, you will design and build performance-sensitive systems from the ground up, working directly with the founders and engineering leadership to move from initial build to production.

Initially, you will focus on systems supporting institutional trading venues, including order and execution workflows, market data, client connectivity,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience on production systems.
• Proficient in a systems-level language (Rust, C++, or Java); Rust is a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, networking, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience operating production systems, including monitoring and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance systems for order handling and market-data workflows.
• Build integrations with the matching platform, institutional clients, custodians, and settlement providers.
• Develop event-driven services and pipelines for real-time, high-volume trading activity.
• Optimize latency, throughput, memory use, and fault tolerance across critical services.
• Build monitoring, observability, recovery, and operational tooling for production systems.
• Establish automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, and release practices.
• Diagnose production issues and improve system reliability and operational resilience.
• Translate market mechanics and product requirements into robust technical systems.
• Contribute across architecture, implementation, code review, and production operations.

Skills

Rust

C++

Java

Distributed systems

Low-latency computing

High-throughput data

Job description

ParetoX is an early-stage technology company building next-generation market infrastructure for trading, financing, and settlement. In this high-impact role, you will design and build performance-sensitive systems from the ground up, working directly with the founders and engineering leadership to move from initial build to production.

Initially, you will focus on systems supporting institutional trading venues, including order and execution workflows, market data, client connectivity,