Backend Engineer (General)

Summary: The Backend Engineer role focuses on developing scalable systems and components for a market data platform that enhances user experiences across various asset classes. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior developers while ensuring high standards of code quality. This is a long-term, fully remote position with a direct client. The role emphasizes performance improvement and risk reduction in core brokerage and clearing systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build scalable systems and components, making the right trade-offs to account for stability and long-term maintainability.
• Design, write, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements to support core brokerage and clearing systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, team productivity, and reduce risks.
• Support core backend for brokerage and clearing.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, other engineering, and operational teams.
• Mentor junior developers on the team and lead projects of large complexity.

Key Skills:

• 3+ years of software developer experience.
• Proven track record of successfully collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering large-scope technical projects, setting a high standard for code quality and code review processes.
• Deep understanding of design, product, and backend development disciplines to work effectively with the team.
• 3 years of experience with Go and Python.
• Familiarity with other parts of the team’s tech stacks - PostgreSQL, K8s, Redis, AWS or similar.
• Experience with Kafka and data streaming technologies.
• Experience with handling/processing large amounts of data.
• Bonus point - experience at a Fin-tech company or financial firm working on market data systems.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT