# Founding Software Engineer

What you’ll do: As founding software engineer, you will be a core contributor to our ultra-low latency matching engine, implementing its technology as a hw/sw co-design in Rust. PAX ultra low-latency in-silicon matching engine: PAX is building the world's first exchange and co-located trading facility on a chip. We will go-to-market using AWS F2 FPGA instances and follow-on with an ASIC design that combines network aggregation with exchange functionality. PAX provides the fastest tick-to-trade and market data publication in the world, across all exchanges (e.g. faster than NYSE, Deutsche Börse, etc.). Exchange integrated high frequency trading logic: The PAX λ API provides traders with on-chip exchange integrated HFT decision logic. Using the λ API, traders can make markets or take arbitrage opportunities. The λ API enables traders to respond to market events the very instant the information is registered in the exchange matching engine. PAX business model: PAX sells access to its ultra-low latency λ API and offers trading otherwise for free. Existing exchanges typically offer rebates for liquidity providers ("makers") and charge fees to liquidity takers (the "maker/taker" fee stru

- **Id**: 1245198
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pax-markets-founding-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redwood City, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T17:18:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T04:11:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1831
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cryptocurrencies, Crypto Exchanges

## Company

- **Id**: 3779311
- **Name**: PAX Markets
- **Domain**: pax.markets
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pax-markets>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Protobuf** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:18:06Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.401
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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