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Senior Software Engineer New Markets

Build and operate scalable brokerage systems spanning backend services, internal React applications, and financial integrations. The role requires senior-level architecture experience, Go or similar backend expertise, event-driven design, incident leadership, and strong collaboration across global teams.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems.
  • Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, a React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations.
  • Work with core teams to enhance and transform the framework to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
  • Collaborate with technical leads in other regions through synchronous and asynchronous communication.
  • Troubleshoot incidents and bugs to maintain system integrity and performance.
  • Navigate regulatory requirements and build scalable solutions supporting international growth.
  • Act as an operational reliability and engineering lead and incident commander during regional business hours.
  • Support regional recruitment initiatives, cross-functional projects, talent mentoring, and engineering culture.
  • Participate in on-call support as needed.

Requirements

  • Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.
  • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages.
  • Experience designing robust, efficient system architectures.
  • Strong communication skills for collaborating with global teams, regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead and troubleshoot incidents and bugs as an incident commander.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and software engineering architecture experience.
  • Ability to work independently in a fully remote, globally distributed team and under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strategic thinking and ability to translate technical concepts into business strategies.
  • Experience with event-driven design.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.
  • Experience in a startup or fast-growing technology company.
  • Knowledge of emerging technologies.
  • Experience with domain-driven design.
  • Experience working with global teams.
  • Financial services experience, particularly online trading platforms, brokerage systems, or fintech.
  • Experience designing and developing complex financial systems, preferably including double-entry accounting.
  • Understanding of financial transaction processing, trade lifecycle management, and settlement processes.
  • Experience with online trading systems, including order management, execution, market data processing, and real-time trade processing.
  • Experience building scalable, high-availability financial applications handling multi-currency transactions.
  • Experience with financial APIs, market data integrations, and trade settlement processes.
  • Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements in financial markets.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time $500 USD new-hire home-office setup benefit.
  • $150 USD monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

Skills

GogRPCReactevent-driven designdomain-driven designMicroservicesSystem Architecturefinancial apismarket dataorder managementdouble-entry accountingtrade settlementCursorClaude CodeCodex

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