Founding Engineer ( Rust Financial Infrastructure New York)
Ant-Tech New York, New York, United States · $200K–$300K/yr
Software Development · 11-50 employees
About the role
The Founding Engineer will take co-founder-level ownership of the technical vision for an on-chain institutional FX hedging platform. They will be responsible for building and shipping the core infrastructure from the ground up.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have expert-level Rust experience and a background as a former founder, CTO, or founding engineer. Experience in financial, trading, or core infrastructure is essential for this role.
Full description
Tasks
📍 New York, USA | Hybrid | Permanent
We are looking for a Founding Engineer to take co-founder-level ownership of the technical vision and help build an on-chain institutional FX hedging platform from the ground up.
🔥 Key Requirements
- Expert-level Rust — MUST
- Strong experience in financial, trading, or core infrastructure
- Former Founder / CTO / Founding Engineer
- Experience building and shipping with AI agents / agentic orchestration
- Comfortable working in a highly ambitious, early-stage startup environment
- Willing to relocate to NYC
- Experience with DevOps is a strong plus
Requirements
Ideal Background
We are particularly interested in engineers with experience in:
- Derivatives margin & netting
- Trading infrastructure / HFT
- Clearing infrastructure
- DCO / DCM infrastructure
- Protocol security / smart contract security
- DeFi
- Kernel / Compiler / Operating Systems
- Physics engines
🎯 Strong Candidate Profiles
Examples include engineers who have worked on:
- Core financial infrastructure
- Trading systems and exchange infrastructure
- Derivatives and risk systems
- Clearing, settlement and market infrastructure
- High-performance Rust systems
- Protocol security and infrastructure
Must-have: Expert-level Rust experience + previous founder, CTO, or founding engineer experience.
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