Senior Backend Developer building and maintaining the trading platform backend infrastructure for My Funded Futures. Collaborating with engineers to deliver high-performance trading systems.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain core trading infrastructure, including:
Real-time order routing and execution services
High-frequency market data processing and distribution
WebSocket and gRPC APIs for real-time client communication
Integration with trading partners and liquidity providers (CQG, Tradovate)
Risk management and position tracking systems
Account management and authentication services
Event-driven services for trade lifecycle management
Database queries and optimizations for high-volume transactional data
Implement new features and services for the trading platform
Optimize database queries and system performance for real-time market data
Collaborate with frontend engineers on API design and data contracts
Work with product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
Debug complex distributed system issues across services
Write comprehensive tests and maintain code quality standards
Participate in code reviews focusing on performance and maintainability
Contribute to technical documentation and runbooks
Requirements
5+ years of professional backend development experience
2+ years of hands-on experience with Go and/or C#
Strong understanding of concurrent programming and multithreading
Experience building high-performance, low-latency systems
Solid design pattern knowledge and clean code practices
Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis
Proficiency with Protobuf for service communication
Experience with message streaming platforms (Kafka and/or NATS)
Writing maintainable, well-documented, and testable code
Strong understanding of:
Memory management and performance optimization
Connection pooling and resource management
Event-driven and message-based architectures
Experience building high-performance, data-intensive backend applications
Comfortable working with:
Large-scale real-time data streams (WebSocket, gRPC, REST APIs)
Time-series data storage and querying
Complex transactional workflows
Previous work on trading platforms, financial applications, or similar real-time systems is a plus but not required
Experience optimizing backend systems for low latency
Proficiency with profiling tools and performance analysis
Experience with PostgreSQL query optimization and indexing strategies
Experience handling high-throughput workloads
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Background in quantitative finance or algorithmic trading
Experience with event sourcing patterns
Knowledge of regulatory compliance in financial systems
Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing)
Understanding of financial protocols and trading APIs (FIX protocol, exchange integrations)
Benefits
Competitive salary
Opportunity to work on a critical, high-visibility product
Direct impact on thousands of active traders
Collaborative team environment with other senior engineers
Professional development and conference attendance
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