Founding Engineer

Location: New York, United States (Hybrid)

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $200K - $300K

Our client, a high-growth fintech venture backed by leading industry accelerators, is developing a next-generation institutional trading venue for foreign exchange (FX) hedging. To drive this technical vision forward, our client is seeking a Founding Engineer with co-founder-level ownership to architect and build core financial infrastructure.

This role offers up to 5% equity and is designed for an ambitious, highly skilled engineer who thrives in an intense startup environment, works at an exceptional speed using modern AI-native development workflows, and is based in, or willing to relocate to New York City.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and optimize high-performance, low-latency core trading and clearing infrastructure using Rust.
• Take end-to-end ownership of the technical roadmap, working closely with the executive leadership team to shape system architecture and execution strategy.
• Leverage AI-native development practices and agentic orchestration (running parallel AI agents) to maximize engineering velocity and output.
• Design and implement risk management, margin, netting, or settlement engines suitable for institutional-grade financial instruments.
• Maint