Software Engineer - Backend

Build the Future of Global Markets At Arcus, we're democratizing access to financial opportunity. The team behind Arcus previously built dYdX, one of the world's largest decentralized exchanges, helping power over $1.5 trillion in trading volume across more than nine years of experience building crypto trading infrastructure. Now we're applying that expertise to an even bigger opportunity: bringing the world's financial markets on-chain. Today, access to markets is still limited by geography, market hours, and legacy financial infrastructure. We believe anyone, anywhere should be able to trade the assets they care about, whenever they want. Built in partnership with Robinhood Chain and backed by a direct investment from Robinhood Crypto, Arcus is creating a unified, self-custodied trading platform where crypto, stock tokens, commodities, and perpetual futures can all be traded seamlessly from a single account, 24/7. Our vision is simple: to make the world's markets open, always-on, and universally accessible. Join us in shaping the next generation of global financial markets. About Arcus Our team has previous experience at Google, Meta, Citadel, DRW, IMC Trading, Stripe and other top companies We're a world-class team with top backers and advisors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam, Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil and more → Learn more about working at Arcus RESPONSIBILITIES: 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 Write open source TypeScript & Python clients that allow users to interact directly with our on-chain smart contracts Work together with multi-functional teams to develop the best overall product REQUIREMENTS: At least 2+ years experience working as a full-time developer (for new graduates, we require internship experience from a top tech company) You have a depth of technical experience and have demonstrated excellence through previous work You write secure, efficient, high quality code You are a fast learner who can quickly master new technologies Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and 3 years of experience or alternatively, a Master’s degree in same and 1 year of experience NICE TO HAVES: You've worked on high-quality products in the finance or security space You have experience with JavaScript, Node.js, and/or Postgres You have experience building blockchain applications / smart contracts Salary range for this job is $180K to $240K 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.