Description :

Senior Backend Engineer

Full-time | On-site | Start : Immediate

About the Role :

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our core engineering team and help build high-throughput, low-latency services that power real-time trading at scale.

What Were Looking For :

You are someone who has built backend systems in a regulated, high-stakes environment ideally fintech, brokerage, payments, or banking. You think in terms of system reliability, data correctness, and operational excellence. You take ownership of services end-to-end : from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and incident response. You communicate clearly, make pragmatic trade-offs, and hold yourself and your peers to a high engineering bar.

What Youll Do :

- Design, build, and own backend microservices for a real-time trading platform from API contracts through to production observability.

- Work with databases, caches, and event-driven architectures to ensure high availability and data consistency across

distributed systems.

- Build integrations with third-party financial services clearing, settlement, identity verification, and payment rails.

- Define and enforce engineering standards code reviews, testing strategies, API design conventions, and incident response processes.

- Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into well-scoped technical deliverables.

- Participate in on-call rotations and own production reliability for the services you build.

- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Must-Have :

- 5+ years backend engineering experience with Golang and Java in production.

- Strong experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and event-driven messaging (Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ).

- Experience building and maintaining REST/gRPC APIs at scale with proper error handling, rate limiting, and versioning.

- Understanding of financial systems ledgers, reconciliation, order lifecycle, or payment processing.

- Experience with microservices architecture, API gateways, and service-to-service communication patterns.

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).

- Strong debugging and incident-response skills in distributed systems.

Nice-to-Have :

- Prior experience at a brokerage, wealth-tech, neo-bank, or payments company.

- Experience with clearing broker integrations or introducing broker models.

- Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements for cross-border financial products.

- Experience with search infrastructure (Typesense, Elasticsearch).

- Background in performance engineering profiling, load testing, and latency optimization.

Tech Stack :

Languages : Golang (primary), Java; Python (analytics/scripting)

Databases : PostgreSQL, Redis, Typesense

Messaging : Kafka, NATS, SSE / WebSocket

Infrastructure : Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform

Integrations : Clearing broker APIs, KYC providers, payment gateways

Observability : Datadog / Grafana, PagerDuty, structured logging (ELK)

What We Offer :

- Greenfield build architect core systems from scratch with modern tooling.

- Direct impact on a product serving real users trading in global markets.

- A small, focused team where your work ships fast and matters.

- Competitive compensation, equity participation, and flexible work culture.

- Exposure to fintech regulatory landscape across multiple jurisdictions.