Description :
Senior Technical Architect Trading Platform.
Experience : 15+ Years.
Location : Gurgaon (WFO).
Employment Type : Full-Time.
Role Overview :
We are hiring a Technical Architect to design and scale a mission-critical, ultra-low latency stock broking platform built for massive scale and peak market volatility.
The role requires deep capital markets expertise and strong experience building high-throughput, deterministic real-time systems in regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities :
- Own end-to-end architecture of a high-performance trading platform.
- Design systems for ultra-low latency, high TPS, and predictable performance.
- Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with zero-downtime principles.
- Drive active-active, multi-region architecture strategy and DR readiness.
- Lead performance benchmarking, tuning, and capacity planning.
- Establish architectural governance and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with business, product, and compliance teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and lead architecture reviews.
Mandatory Experience :
- 15+ years in backend/distributed systems engineering.
- Proven experience building ultra-low latency, high-scale systems.
- Mandatory 3-5 years of experience in stock broking / trading platforms / capital markets.
- Experience handling mission-critical systems with strict SLAs.
- Exposure to high-volume, real-time transaction systems.
Domain Expertise (Must Have Broking Platforms) :
Strong hands-on understanding of :
Order & Execution :
- Complete order lifecycle in broking (validation/risk checks/routing/exchange acknowledgement/trade confirmation settlement).
- Ultra-low latency trade routing and deterministic execution flows.
- Order state management, reconciliation, and audit trails.
Market Data & Charting :
- Market feed ingestion (tick-by-tick data, LTP, depth).
- High-throughput feed processing and normalization.
- Real-time charting data pipelines and aggregation strategies.
Portfolio, Risk & P&L :
- Real-time portfolio tracking and position management.
- MTM and real-time P&L computation.
- Pre-trade and post-trade risk validation.
- Margin and exposure management logic.
Distributed Broking Architecture :
- Data movement across multiple services (OMS, RMS, portfolio, reporting, notifications).
- Event propagation and consistency in distributed trading systems.
- High-throughput inter-service communication patterns.
Tech Compliance & Governance :
- Understanding of broking technology compliance requirements.
- Data encryption (in-transit & at-rest).
- Secure key management practices.
- Data retention, archival, and backup strategies.
- Disaster recovery and audit-readiness considerations.
Technical Skills :
Core Engineering :
- Strong proficiency in Go (mandatory).
- Strong proficiency in Java (mandatory).
- Deep understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, and networking fundamentals.
Communication & Architecture :
- Hands-on experience with gRPC (public APIs and inter-service communication).
- Strong experience designing distributed architectures.
- Experience leading or contributing to large-scale architecture revamps.
- Strong understanding of data consistency models and service decomposition.
Event-Driven & Messaging :
- Experience building event-driven systems using Kafka.
- Expertise in asynchronous processing and high-throughput event pipelines.
Cloud & Infrastructure :
- Experience hosting services on AWS and/or GCP.
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment architecture.
- Active-active setup and high-throughput region design.
- Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture and RTO/RPO planning.
- Containerization and orchestration exposure preferred.
What We Value :
- Performance-first engineering mindset.
- Strong architectural ownership and accountability.
- Ability to operate in high-pressure trading environments.
- Clear technical leadership and decision-making capability.