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!

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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 very strong 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 and work through ambiguity

NICE TO HAVES:

Experience in decentralized finance

BENEFITS:

Unlimited flexible PTO and 11+ paid company holidays

Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

$300/month wellness stipend

$125/month commuter benefit and $200/month phone and internet stipend

$1,700 in-office setup allowance plus up to $1,000 for home office

Free lunch at the office and dinner post 6PM

2 team offsites per year

Team bonding events - restaurants, comedy shows, escape rooms, etc.

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.