Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Railsware is building a Trading Terminal designed for prop firms and traders. They are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer who is also an active trader, responsible for developing and improving trading tools and visualizations.
Responsibilities
- Building real-time market data pipelines (Level 2 data, order book reconstruction)
- Developing order flow visualizations (footprints, heatmaps, DOM, profiles, CVD)
- Improving the trading interface (charts, DOM, tape, order panel working together)
- Preparing live data features for partnerships with prop firms
- Integrating with market data providers
Skills
- 5+ years of engineering experience
- Comfortable across backend systems, including low-latency backend
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks ( React 18+ / TypeScript)
- Active trader: futures or crypto, day trading or scalping
- Spec-driven, AI-orchestrated development: you plan deeply and know how to work with AI agents effectively
- Experience with real-time market data: WebSocket streaming, order books, Level 2 depth
- Ability to produce your own product specs
- Ability to make UX decisions based on the UX guide and input from a UX advisor
- Fluent English (written and spoken)
- Rust (we use Rust/Axum)
- Experience with high-performance browser rendering (e.g. WebAssembly, ImGui, egui)
- Familiarity with trading tools like footprint charts, DOM/ladder, heatmaps, market/volume profile, CVD
Benefits
- Ownership — you’ll be involved in the full process: from specs to shipping. No ticket queue.
- Product connection — you’ll use the product yourself as a trader.
- AI-first team — we use AI as part of how we plan, research, and build, not just as a helper tool.
- Working style — flexible. We collaborate when needed and work independently when it’s more effective. We focus on results.
- Working style — outcome-driven. We combine synchronous collaboration with focused asynchronous work, choosing the approach that best supports effective outcomes.
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