Software Engineer, Backend Systems
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
Company: Fullstack
Location: New York NY (on-site)
Compensation: $185000 - $300000 competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: TN and H-1B transfers only (excluding H-1B holders in year 3 or year 6)
Fullstack is building a single front end for crypto trading. Today retail traders are spread across multiple front ends browser-extension wallets bridges and a growing list of venues. Fullstack brings perpetuals cross-chain spot and prediction markets into one portfolio-margin trading experience with a single unified balance extending USDC collateral to the venues of each users choice.
One co-founder built Insilico Terminal which the company describes as the leading order execution and management system for centralized exchanges; the other ran one of the top on-chain and centralized-exchange high-frequency trading firms. Fullstack has raised $15M and has a team of about 10.
Fullstack is looking for a backend engineer with production Rust experience to help build the infrastructure behind its real-time trading platform: risk settlement market data and the APIs traders depend on. This role suits someone with strong asynchronous programming solid systems knowledge and a performance-driven mindset who thrives in a collaborative in-person environment.
- Build and maintain risk and liquidation engines that improve capital efficiency in volatile markets.
- Design and implement the blockchain state machines that power trading settlement and risk.
- Build services that keep state consistent across asynchronous processes using voting consensus and coordination.
- Process live market data and coordinate actions across trading venues over WebSocket streams.
- Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times.
- 2-4 years as a backend software engineer
- In-depth production experience with Rust
- Strong asynchronous programming (Tokio a plus) and distributed systems knowledge
- A performance-driven mindset for latency-sensitive real-time systems
- Ability to work on-site in New York
Rust Tokio distributed systems blockchain REST APIs WebSocket APIs Docker
REVENUE: 25% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $46K-$75K; 4 seat(s) up to $243K if all filled.
TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Hyperliquid Coinbase Jump Crypto Wintermute dYdX Kraken.
BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 2-4 yrs; production Rust; async/distributed; visa: TN or H-1B transfer only (not yr 3/6); location: NYC on-site.