Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Build the Future of Global Markets

At Arcus, our mission is to empower anyone to build wealth by making investing accessible, affordable, and simple. The team behind Arcus previously built dYdX, helping power over $1.5 trillion in trading volume. Now we're bringing the world's financial markets onchain.

Built in partnership with Robinhood Chain and backed by a direct investment from Robinhood Crypto, Arcus brings crypto, stock tokens, commodities, and perpetual futures into one self-custodied account. Our vision is to build the world's best spot and perpetuals exchange - trusted, accessible, and reliable, with deep liquidity and accurate prices. Every asset, 24/7.

• Experienced team: Google, Meta, Citadel, DRW, IMC Trading, Stripe, Coinbase, and more.
• Leading backers and advisors: Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam, Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, and more.

Join us in shaping the next generation of global financial markets.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contribute to the core trading engine. Optimize for throughput, latency, and correctness under high-concurrency across many trading pairs.
• Own real-time market infrastructure. Build the pipelines that process, aggregate, and distribute order book updates, trades, and market events to traders.
• Build for 24/7 uptime. The exchange doesn't rest. Design systems for seamless upgradeability, horizontal scalability, and zero-downtime deploys.
• Shape the architecture as we scale. Make foundational technical decisions about how the platform evolves as we add asset classes and increase throughput.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years experience working as a full-time developer
• You write secure, efficient, high quality code and have a good understanding of CS fundamentals
• Experience building or integrating with trading systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures, excellent coding skills, and strong debugging capabilities.
• Fast learner who can quickly master new technologies.

NICE TO HAVES:

• Experience or interest in decentralized finance.

Salary range for this role is $210K to $300K USD (NY). Compensation subject to experience and location. Published salary bands pursuant to transparency laws, and do not include possible variable compensation such as annual merit increases, bonus eligibility, commission, or equity incentive.