Staff Engineer, Systems Engineer

This range is provided by Salt. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Staff-level engineering role focused on architecting and owning a greenfield trading and brokerage platform in a regulated financial environment. This position emphasizes system design, technical leadership, and building high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure from the ground up.

• Lead architecture and technical direction for distributed trading and brokerage systems
• Own latency-sensitive, business-critical services end to end
• Design scalable, event-driven systems using modern cloud technologies
• Set engineering standards, best practices, and long-term technical vision
• Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership across teams
• Partner closely with product, markets, and brokerage stakeholders

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep experience building trading, market, or financial infrastructure systems
• Expert-level distributed systems and system design background
• Proven ownership of low-latency, high-availability services
• Strong Scala/JVM experience (Go a plus)
• Kafka or large-scale event-streaming expertise
• Thrives in high-ownership, fast-moving environments

Mid‑Senior level

Full-time

• Medical insurance