Backend Engineer (Rust)
Hill.com is building the operating system to power the private markets. Founded by Andrew Benson, Hill is a marketplace for retail investors to trade pre-IPO companies. Hill is backed by HF0 and advised by the former president of Charles Schwab and Fidelity. Prior to Hill, Andrew founded River.com, a Bitcoin financial services company managing $3B in assets and backed by top venture capital firms (M13, Polychain, Craft Ventures, Slow Ventures, and Peter Thiel).
Hill is on a mission to bring the private markets to every household by 2030. We are starting with the ability to trade pre-IPO companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and more. The current state of pre-IPO stock trading is that transactions often take 60 days to close—we bring this down to 60 seconds.
We are forming a small team of highly talented individuals to achieve our ambitious mission.
The role
What you'll build
- Core investing infrastructure — Event-based systems handling order matching, settlement, and reconciliation using CQRS patterns
- Financial ledgers — Hill's core accounting system that track billions in assets with perfect accuracy
- API build-out – Design and build APIs used by enterprise partners with a strong focus on scalability and Developer Experience
About you
- You can own the execution of critical financial systems from conception through to production
- You know how to build systems that handle complex legal and regulatory requirements
- You ship code daily - we are builders, not managers
- Rust is your primary tool and you have strong opinions about how best it should be used
- CQRS/event sourcing isn't just theory - you've implemented it
- You can design APIs that scale to enterprise customers and hold strong opinions on DX
- You code 80%+ of your time and want to keep it that way
- You understand that legal compliance is a feature, not a burden
- You're familiar with our tech stack (Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform) and aren't afraid to work across the stack
Why join Hill?
- Early team building critical financial infrastructure
- Your code will handle billions in transactions
- Complex technical challenges (not another CRUD app)
- Competitive comp + significant equity
- No BS, high-velocity environment
We're funded, growing fast, and need engineers who want to build, not talk about building.
What we offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
- Opportunity to shape a high-growth fintech company
- Accelerated career growth and development
