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Distributed Systems Engineer

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Location: New York, United States (Office)

On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: $225K - $300K

Our client is a high-growth fintech startup on a mission to re-imagine financial exchange infrastructure from first principles, delivering fair, robust, and transparent order execution. Founded by customer-obsessed engineers and researchers, the organization tackles complex technical challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The engineering team is focused on building a high-throughput, low-latency financial exchange. Depending on core technical strengths and interests, the successful candidate will contribute directly to the architecture and execution of critical systems, including matching engine development, trading APIs, or real-time market data feeds.

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Senior Fullstack Engineer

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Location: Remote - Europe preferred, must be able to work European hours

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $120K - $150K

Our client is a dynamic, forward-thinking, fully remote organization with an ambitious roadmap and a strong commitment to engineering excellence.

Seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to work at the intersection of frontend and backend development. In this role, the engineer will build and maintain both a React-based trading user interface and the TypeScript backend services that power high-performance trading platforms. The position involves full feature ownership—from crafting responsive, real-time interfaces to designing the APIs, data pipelines, and indexing solutions that feed them.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong passion for trading, engineering rigor, security, and velocity, backed by over six years of professional experience and a dedication to code quality and state-of-the-art software testing practices.

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Frontend Development & Performance

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Senior (Rust/C++) Backend Engineer

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Location: Remote - Europe

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $120K - $200K

We are hiring on behalf of our client, a fast-paced, dynamic, and fully remote team in the decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 space who is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer. The employer operates with an ambitious roadmap and a strong commitment to engineering rigor, high-grade security, and rapid execution.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, the selected candidate will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust, high-throughput, and scalable backend systems. This role extends beyond writing code to architecting resilient, secure systems optimized for low-latency, real-time processing in financial services.

The ideal candidate brings over eight years of engineering experience, a deep interest in Web3 and DeFi, and a strong dedication to high code quality and state-of-the-art software testing methodologies.

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Backend Development

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Quant Engineer

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Location: Shanghai

On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: $150K–$200K + equity

Our client is an innovative quantamental investment platform that empowers investors to build, share, and collaboratively execute sophisticated trading playbooks. The platform covers the entire investment lifecycle, including financial modeling, data visualization, quantitative strategy development, event-driven backtesting, and real-time dashboard monitoring. Designed to seamlessly convert strategic ideas into live execution parameters without requiring code, the platform fosters collaborative intelligence to turn individual research into a powerful, shared edge.

On behalf of this client, we are seeking a top-tier Quant Engineer to build and scale the core, production-grade trading engine that powers the platform's execution layer. This is a pure systems and infrastructure engineering position, rather than a quantitative strategy or research role. The successful candidate will focus heavily on infrastructure, architectural correctness, and high-level reliability across the end-to-end framework: from research and event-driven simulation to paper trading, live order routing, and real-time execution.

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Senior FullStack Developer - Octopus by RTG

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About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems, managing databases, implementing DevOps practices, ensuring security compliance, and collaborating closely with frontend teams.

You will play a key role in shaping system architecture, optimizing performance, automating deployments, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring the delivery of secure, high-quality software solutions.

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Senior Data Engineer

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Location: New York, United States (Hybrid) 

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $180K - $320K

Our client is a high-volume decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol based on Arbitrum, facilitating leveraged trading of real-world assets—including commodities, forex, indices, and equities—alongside crypto with full self-custody.

The client is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to spearhead infrastructure initiatives, optimize high-throughput data processing, and establish modern data engineering best practices. This role will focus on scaling data pipelines and building an advanced infrastructure layer that empowers engineering teams with self-service capabilities for deploying applications, requesting infrastructure, and managing monitoring systems.

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Backend Engineer (NYC)

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Location: New York, United States (Hybrid)

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $180K - $320K

Our client is the largest decentralized perpetual exchange on Arbitrum, having processed over $20 billion in cumulative trading volume since its launch in late 2024. The platform enables leveraged trading of real-world assets, including commodities, forex, indices, and stocks—alongside cryptocurrency, bringing global markets on-chain with full self-custody.

A mid- to senior-level Backend Engineer is required to join an ambitious team focused on scaling a state-of-the-art infrastructure layer. This infrastructure is designed to allow engineering teams to self-serve 90% of their needs, enabling this role to focus entirely on high-level, high-impact projects. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with quants, infrastructure specialists, and data engineers to build a centralized pricing plane and an extremely dynamic pricing system that determines market competitiveness in real time.

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Quant Developer Relations Engineer

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Location: Singapore, Singapore (Hybrid)

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $115K - $140K

Our client is an institutional-grade prime broker specializing in liquidity provisioning and high-scale algorithmic trading infrastructure. The organization is dedicated to delivering highly reliable, low-latency connectivity frameworks optimized for systematic funds, proprietary trading firms, and advanced algorithmic builders operating at scale.

They are seeking a highly technical Quant Developer Relations Engineer to take full ownership of the technical onboarding and integration lifecycle for API-driven trading counterparties. In this capacity, the successful candidate will operate directly at the intersection of core engineering and elite trading teams, ensuring seamless, low-friction adoption of the client’s institutional trading infrastructure.

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Backend Engineer

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Location: Singapore, Singapore (Hybrid)

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $115K - $140K

We are hiring on behalf of an elite proprietary trading infrastructure firm is seeking an exceptional Backend Engineer to design and build the core components of its next-generation institutional trading framework. Operating as a specialized prime brokerage ecosystem for high-throughput decentralized protocols, our client develops cutting-edge environments powering institutional-grade algorithmic execution at scale.

This critical technical role focuses on architecting secure, low-latency infrastructure capable of processing high-volume financial transactions. The successful candidate will collaborate with an elite technical team to advance the capabilities of decentralized execution environments, utilizing privacy-preserving technologies and sophisticated distributed system designs.

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SRE (Terminal)

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Location: New York, United States • London, United Kingdom (Office)

On-Site | Full-time

Compensation: Competitive Compensation

Our client is a high-growth software development organization and a key contributor to one of the largest and fastest-growing decentralized crypto social networks globally. The platform has achieved massive scale, generating significant revenue and global attention since its inception.

To support this rapid expansion and ensure the continuous uptime of its high-stakes, high-throughput environment, our client is seeking a battle-tested Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Expert. This individual will be handed ambiguous, critical infrastructure challenges and will be trusted to navigate them end-to-end—scoping solutions, making sound architectural trade-offs, and executing with precision.

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