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

About Moment

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.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision coverage.
401(k) matching.
$150 monthly gym stipend.
Free lunch and dinner.

Compensation

$200K to $325K base salary + initial equity grant + annual performance-based equity bonuses.

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