Staff Software Engineer Backend
Arcus is a decentralized exchange built in partnership with Robinhood on Robinhood Chain, founded by the team behind dYdX. It offers self-custodied trading of stock tokens (spot, zero fees, 24/7) and cross-margined perpetual futures across equities, crypto, commodities, and indices with up to 50x leverage, serving retail and institutional traders in eligible jurisdictions.
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About Arcus
Arcus is a decentralized exchange built in partnership with Robinhood Chain, combining brokerage-scale consumer experience with DeFi-native infrastructure. Users get one self-custodial account to trade Stock Tokens (spot, with zero fees, 24/7) and cross-margined perpetual futures across equities, crypto, commodities, and indices, with up to 50x leverage. The platform offers 95+ markets including 80+ US and international equities, indices like SPY and QQQ, commodities, and major crypto assets such as BTC, ETH, and SOL. Arcus is described as the next chapter for the team that built dYdX, with dYdX Chain continuing to operate separately while Arcus introduces new asset classes on a chain purpose-built for high-throughput trading. It provides API trading with order management, account data, and market feeds, and is not available to users in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, or other restricted jurisdictions.
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About the Role
You will build low-latency financial software, including matching and trading engines and REST and WebSocket API endpoints. You will architect reliable backend systems, collaborate across functions, manage project priorities and deliverables, and mentor colleagues on design techniques and coding standards.
Requirements
- Computer Science or related field
- Software development
- Node.js
- Microservices
- Terraform
- Amazon Web Services
- EC2
- Glue
- S3
- Athena
- PostgreSQL
- Datadog
Responsibilities
- Write low-latency financial software for trading volume processing
- Build order book matching engines, trading engines, and REST and WebSocket API endpoints
- Build high-performance REST and WebSocket APIs
- Architect performant and reliable backend systems
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Mentor team members on design techniques and coding standards