About this role
About the Role Moment is hiring an Engineer to help build the systems that power its next chapter. You will design and ship scalable, high-performance infrastructure that enables real-time decision making for the world's largest financial institutions.
What You'll Do
- Architect and ship systems that solve genuinely hard problems, including distributed systems at scale, event-driven pipelines, and data platforms that handle large financial data loads.
- Work closely with engineering leadership and across teams to deliver software that is ambitious and distinctive.
- Balance hands-on coding with architectural strategy, navigating from low-level performance work to high-level system design; lead and execute technical projects spanning backend systems, data infrastructure, and product.
What We're Looking For
- A strong understanding of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and general systems fundamentals.
- Experience architecting or contributing to systems that solve complex challenges around scalability, distributed systems, and large data volumes.
- A willingness to figure stuff out.
Nice to Have
- Golang, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka, ClickHouse, and cloud functions (e.g., AWS Lambda).
- Event-driven systems, trading systems, portfolio management or accounting systems.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $200K to $325K
- Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
- Our beautiful West Village Office with a terrace / 5x a week in office
- Free lunch and dinner.
- $150 monthly gym stipend
- Health, dental, and vision coverage. 100% company reimbursement