# Backend Software Engineer

- **Company:** Raydar
- **Location:** New York City, NY, US (Not specified)
- **Salary:** Salary not disclosed
- **Contract:** Full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-11-11

## Job description

About the company
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the server-side engineering of a software platform, from core business logic and data pipelines to the APIs and live data feeds that users rely on. The role pairs hands-on engineering with input into product direction at an early stage.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain core transaction logic, ledger data ingestion pipelines, and external APIs and streaming services.
- Design data schemas, state handling, failure recovery and consistency across off-chain and on-chain components.
- Manage cloud infrastructure, messaging and data stores, including deployment automation, monitoring and on-call support.
- Work directly with founders to shape product decisions and technical priorities.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 5 or more years of experience as a senior or staff-level engineer.
- Hands-on experience running distributed systems in production, including diagnosing and resolving root causes under pressure.
- Strong systems design skills for distributed architectures.
- Solid computer science foundation in architecture, databases and scaling.
- Strong written and spoken communication in English.
- Senior-level title, or a clear path to promotion for candidates at the lower end of the experience range.
Bonus points
- Prior experience as a founder.
- Proficiency in a performance-focused compiled language, with Rust being especially welcome.
- Experience with Redis, Kafka, Postgres or AWS.
- Background at a large technology company followed by startup experience.
- Prior work on financial trading infrastructure, such as order routing or price feed systems.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 230,000 per year
- Equity
- Relocation support
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
- Full-time

[Apply on the company site](https://www.joonow.com/en/job/backend-software-engineer-new-york-city-ny-cxtnq355ym/apply)