Staff Engineer, Matching

Tokenta Terminal; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Tokenta Terminal is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the marketplace matching engine, order books, and latency-sensitive paths that connect verified AI assets to institutional flow.

You will design and operate the systems that pair buyers and sellers across verified listings, C2C offers, and swap requests, with a focus on correctness, observability, and graceful degradation under load. This role sits at the core of Tokenta Terminal throughput.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend or trading-adjacent systems in production.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, queues, and idempotent APIs.
• Comfort reading and writing TypeScript, Go, or Rust in a polyglot environment.
• Track record shipping high-availability services with measurable SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement matching, routing, and fill logic with clear invariants and audit trails.
• Partner with protocol and verification teams on asset lifecycle and settlement hooks.
• Drive performance work: profiling, capacity planning, and SLO definition for critical paths.
• Mentor engineers on code review standards, incident response, and production ownership.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Queues

Idempotent APIs

8+ years experience

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Job description

Own the marketplace matching engine, order books, and latency-sensitive paths that connect verified AI assets to institutional flow.

About the role

You will design and operate the systems that pair buyers and sellers across verified listings, C2C offers, and swap requests. This role sits at the center of Tokenta Terminal throughput and requires rigor around correctness, observability, and graceful degradation under load.

Responsibilities

• — Design and implement matching, routing, and fill logic with clear invariants and audit trails.
• — Partner with protocol and verification teams on asset lifecycle and settlement hooks.
• — Drive performance work: profiling, capacity planning, and SLO definition for critical paths.
• — Mentor engineers on code review standards, incident response, and production ownership.

Requirements

• — 8+ years building backend or trading-adjacent systems in production.
• — Strong experience with distributed systems, queues, and idempotent APIs.
• — Comfort reading and writing TypeScript, Go, or Rust in a polyglot environment.
• — Track record shipping high-availability services with measurable SLOs.

Nice to have

• — Experience with marketplace, exchange, or fintech matching infrastructure.
• — Familiarity with on-chain settlement or escrow integration patterns.