Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Build and scale backend infrastructure for a 24/7 trading platform, including the core trading engine and real-time market data pipelines. The role requires 5+ years of development experience, strong distributed-systems expertise, and experience with trading systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the core trading engine, optimizing throughput, latency, and correctness under high concurrency across many trading pairs.
- Build real-time market infrastructure and pipelines that process, aggregate, and distribute order book updates, trades, and market events.
- Design systems for seamless upgrades, horizontal scalability, and zero-downtime deployments to support 24/7 uptime.
- Make foundational architectural decisions as the platform adds asset classes and increases throughput.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working as a full-time developer.
- Secure, efficient, high-quality coding skills and strong computer science fundamentals.
- Experience building or integrating with trading systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and software architectures.
- Excellent coding and debugging capabilities.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
Nice to Have
- Experience or interest in decentralized finance.
Compensation
- Salary range: $210,000–$300,000 USD.
- Variable compensation may include merit increases, bonuses, or equity incentives.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Software Architecture, Trading Systems, Real-Time Systems, Concurrency, Horizontal Scaling, Zero-Downtime Deployment, Debugging, Computer Science, Decentralized Finance
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