Software Engineer

Lumina Markets; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Lumina is seeking a Software Engineer to build and ship across Lumina's web and mobile product experience. This hands-on, full-stack role covers frontend, backend, and infrastructure as needed, with collaboration between NYC product/engineering teams in Budapest.

You’ll own problems end-to-end and ship quickly without compromising quality. The ideal candidate is pragmatic, self-directed, and experienced across architecture decisions to polished product details, working in a fast-moving

Qualifications

• Full-stack development experience across frontend and backend.
• Experience shipping production software.
• Ability to work with product, design, and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features across the full stack. Frontend, backend, and the systems connecting them.
• Collaborate with product and design to translate requirements into clean, reliable code.
• Work with real-time market data, pricing feeds, and trading infrastructure to deliver a fast, trustworthy user experience.
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to maintain high engineering standards.

Skills

Full-stack development

Frontend development

Backend development

Distributed team collaboration

Job description

Role

We're hiring a Software Engineer to build and ship across Lumina's web and mobile product experience.

This is a hands-on, full-stack role for someone who's comfortable moving across the frontend, backend, and infrastructure as the problem demands. You'll work closely with our product team in NYC and our engineering team in Budapest to take features from design through to production. You should be comfortable operating with limited structure, owning problems end-to-end, and shipping fast without sacrificing quality.

The ideal candidate is pragmatic, self-directed, and enjoys the full lifecycle of building software: from architecture decisions to the small details that make a product feel polished.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features across the full stack. Frontend, backend, and the systems connecting them.
• Work with product and design to translate requirements into clean, reliable, well-architected code.
• Work with real-time market data, pricing feeds, and trading infrastructure to build a fast, trustworthy user experience.
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and participate in code review to keep a high engineering bar as the team grows.
• Debug and resolve issues across the stack, from UI glitches to backend performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with our Budapest-based engineering team on shared architecture, APIs, and standards.
• Help define engineering processes and best practices appropriate for an early-stage, fast-moving team.
• Balance speed and rigor: moving quickly while maintaining the reliability our users and regulators expect.

Candidate Profile

• Ideally 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with full-stack range (not just comfort on one side of the stack). We will also consider outstanding candidates with 3+ years of experience.
• Strong fundamentals in modern web frameworks and backend/API development; mobile experience is a plus.
• Track record of shipping production software independently, from design through deployment.
• Entrepreneurial and self-directed; you operate well with minimal supervision and high accountability.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, design, and a distributed engineering team.
• Experience in fintech, trading, or markets-adjacent products is a plus, but not required.

What We Offer

Join Lumina at the ground floor of a new financial category with global potential. You'll help build the core product of a company aiming to define how prediction markets are built, understood, and adopted.

With institutional backing and startup agility, we offer stability plus the freedom to move fast and own outcomes.

We offer competitive compensation (base salary + cash and equity bonus), and health insurance.