Software Engineer developing advanced trading applications for professional derivatives traders at TT. Collaborate with the team to enhance the award - winning trading platform.
About the role
- Hands-on engineer designing, building, and maintaining core backend systems at MyFunded Futures. Leading technical architecture and mentoring the engineering team in a fintech environment.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical lead across platform and backend engineering — owning architecture decisions, facilitating cross-team coordination, and ensuring consistent development standards.
- Design, build, and maintain core backend services and APIs using Django/Python and Go, with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, security risks, and reliability gaps before they become production incidents.
- Mentor and develop engineers across the team — providing clear, constructive technical guidance and helping others grow in ownership and scope.
- Contribute to frontend development in React, particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
- Be a dependable presence on-call and in production — you take ownership of issues through to resolution and document your learnings as repeatable processes.
Requirements
- Strong ability to write well-structured, idiomatic, Python and Go with a deep understanding of the Django ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience integrating payment systems (Stripe, Worldpay, Braintree, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture discussions and produce clear, defensible design decisions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
- Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
- Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch) including schema design, query optimization, indexing and transactional integrity.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
- React (or similar) development experience — comfortable contributing to or reviewing frontend work within a full-stack platform context.
- Reliable and dependable – you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Performance-based incentives
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