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# Software Engineer, Backend (Rust) - Crypto Trading

- **Company:** Van Kaizen
- **Location:** Weehawken Township, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Algorithmic Trading, Databases, Distributed Systems, Github, High-Frequency Trading, Blockchain, Software Engineering, WebSocket, Backend, Low Latency, Web3.js, Asynchronous Programming
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75693931-software-engineer-backend-rust-crypto-trading

## About the Role

* 2-4 years of backend/software engineering experience
 * Strong production Rust experience
 * Experience with Tokio / asynchronous programming
 * Background in real-time, high-throughput or low-latency systems
 * Experience with relational, time-series and/or key-value databases
 * Fintech, crypto, trading, HFT or blockchain experience
 * Genuine interest in financial markets and Web3
 * Strong systems fundamentals and ideally meaningful Rust/C side projects or GitHub work

This is a small, highly technical team backed by$15M+ in funding, where engineers can have significant impact and work directly with experienced founders and senior engineers.

## Description

* Build high-performance risk, liquidation and trading systems
 * Develop real-time, low-latency backend infrastructure processing live market data
 * Build REST and WebSocket APIs with millisecond-level response times
 * Work with Rust, Tokio, asynchronous programming, distributed systems and blockchain
 * Solve complex problems around concurrency, state management and high-throughput event streams