You are a Senior Backend Engineer who will be part of the core engineering team responsible for building high-throughput, low-latency services to support real-time trading at scale. You have prior experience in building backend systems in regulated, high-stakes environments such as fintech, brokerage, payments, or banking. Your focus lies in ensuring system reliability, data correctness, and operational excellence. You take full ownership of services from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and incident response. Communication, pragmatic decision-making, and maintaining high engineering standards are integral parts of your work ethic, both individually and within your team. **Key Responsibilities:**
Design, develop, and take ownership of backend microservices for a real-time trading platform, including the entire process from defining API contracts to ensuring production observability. - Utilize databases, caches, and event-driven architectures to guarantee high availability and data consistency in distributed systems. - Establish integrations with third-party financial services like clearing, settlement, identity verification, and payment rails. - Set and uphold engineering standards such as conducting code reviews, implementing effective testing strategies, defining API design conventions, and creating incident response processes. - Collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into well-scoped technical deliverables. - Participate in on-call rotations and take charge of ensuring production reliability for the services you develop. - Mentor junior engineers and contribute to fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement within the team. **Qualifications Required:**
Possess 5+ years of backend engineering experience working with Golang and Java in a production environment. - Strong familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and event-driven messaging systems like Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ. - Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining REST/gRPC APIs at scale with robust error handling, rate limiting, and versioning. - Understanding of financial systems components such as ledgers, reconciliation, order lifecycle, and payment processing. - Experience with microservices architecture, API gateways, and various service-to-service communication patterns. - Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containerization using Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure from providers like AWS or GCP. - Proficient in debugging and incident-response skills within distributed systems. **Nice-to-Have:**
Previous experience at a brokerage, wealth-tech, neo-bank, or payments company. - Experience with clearing broker integrations or introducing broker models. - Familiarity with compliance and regulatory requirements for cross-border financial products. - Exposure to search infrastructure tools like Typesense or Elasticsearch. - Background in performance engineering encompassing profiling, load testing, and latency optimization.