Founding Software Engineer

About Askew

Askew is a digital research company developing novel investment instruments that financialize pure data and metrics. Leveraging information as a means of informing efficient, emergent capital markets.

Role Description

We’re looking for a Founding Software Engineer to help architect and build the core infrastructure powering Askew’s suite of novel derivatives. This is a critical role on a small, senior team: you’ll be building reliable, low-latency systems that interact with, collect and model large quantities of unstructured data, while informing capital markets with low margin of error.

If you’ve built scalable systems in Go or Rust, worked on financial infrastructure, love exploring microstructure or care deeply about performance, reliability, and security, we’d love to meet you!

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend systems that collect and model high-volumes of unstructured data
• Develop and maintain resilient, low-latency infrastructure informing active orderbooks
• Optimize systems for reliability, observability, and security

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in backend systems development at scale
• Proficiency in Go or Rust
• Deep understanding of system performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
• Strong communicator and comfortable owning systems end to end
• Trading infrastructure experience is a plus - orderbooks, or low-latency systems