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Join Moment as a Software Engineer to develop scalable systems for the financial market. Design and maintain core services and lead projects.
Quick Facts
- Role: Distributed Systems Engineer
- Location: 5 days/week @ NYC HQ
- Base salary: $200K to $325K
- Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
Moment builds next-generation trading and portfolio management technology. Our core product suite includes high-throughput market data pipelines, automated smart order routing algorithms, real-time portfolio ledgering and position tracking, and high-cardinality portfolio optimization.
Founded in 2023 by a team of quant traders and researchers from Citadel and Jane Street, we've raised over $100M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners and now power mission critical workflows for financial institutions with over $8T+ of assets.
You're a good fit if you're an engineer with...
- Strong logical reasoning and the ability to simplify complex problems. You can build clear mental models and approach complicated systems methodically.
- Solid understanding of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and general systems fundamentals.
- Demonstrated experience architecting or contributing to systems that solve complex business challenges — especially around scalability, distributed systems, and large data volumes.
- A willingness to just go figure stuff out :)
Even better if you have experience with...
- Golang, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka, ClickHouse, and cloud functions (e.g., AWS Lambda).
- Event-driven systems, trading systems, portfolio management or accounting systems.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- $150 monthly gym stipend.
- Free lunch and dinner.
$200K to $325K base salary + initial equity grant + annual performance-based equity bonuses.
Top Skills
AWS
C++
Go
Java
Kafka
Postgres
Moment New York, New York, USA Office
New York, New York, United States
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