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 $56M 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.