Staff Software Engineer- Backend at Arcus (New York, NY)Staff 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. → Learn more about working at Arcus

• Write low latency financial software that will process billions of dollars a day worth of trading volume, including order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST & Websocket API endpoints.
• Build high performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend app as well as programmatic traders.
• Architect performant and reliable backend systems.
• Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product.
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise.
• Mentor and develop other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.

Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field and 5 years of software development experience, including at least 3 years of experience managing core Node.js services delivering business data to various microservices using Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), EC2/Glue/S3/Athena, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Datadog.

Salary range for this role is $230K to $305K 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.