Senior Engineer building and maintaining backend services and platform infrastructure for proprietary trading platform. Focusing on performance and reliability in a fintech environment.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain backend services and platform infrastructure in C# and Go, with a focus on performance, reliability, and correctness.
Own backend components end-to-end - from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and on-call support.
Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks before they become production incidents.
Collaborate with the platform tech lead and other engineers on system design, code reviews, and cross-team integration work.
Contribute to frontend development in React, particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
Write and maintain comprehensive tests, documentation, and runbooks to support operational excellence.
Participate actively in on-call rotation - owning issues through to resolution and contributing to post-incident reviews.
Requirements
Strong C# development skills
Hands-on experience building and maintaining backend or platform systems in production environments.
Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems, particularly in financial, trading, or data-intensive domains.
Strong understanding of databases including schema design, query optimization, and transactional integrity (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar).
Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
Frontend awareness - comfortable working across the stack, reviewing or contributing to React-based frontend work.
Reliable and dependable - you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
Strong communication skills; able to collaborate effectively across engineering and product.
Familiarity with functional programming paradigms - comfortable applying immutability, pure functions, and composition patterns to write more predictable, testable code.
Proficiency in Go - comfortable writing production-grade services and APIs.
Experience with React or modern frontend frameworks - able to contribute to platform tooling and interfaces.
Familiarity with Python for scripting, tooling, or data processing.
Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
Background in trading, futures, prop trading, or fintech - you understand the domain and its performance expectations.
Familiarity with distributed systems patterns: message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching strategies (Redis), and service-to-service communication.
Exposure to observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, and distributed tracing.
Experience working in multi-team engineering organizations with shared platform dependencies.
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