Senior Backend Engineer

About This Role

This role is for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a team focused on hardening the core order management engine, optimizing TPS, and developing new features for high-throughput distributed systems in the finance sector.

Responsibilities

• Harden the core order management engine
• Optimize TPS (Transactions Per Second)
• Develop new features and expand to new asset classes
• Build core trading strategies vis-à-vis retail order flow
• Work closely with founders and contribute to technical leadership

Requirements

• Expertise building real-time high-throughput systems at 99.9%+ uptime SLA
• Golang experience (or Rust or Python & C++)
• Experience building async queuing systems, batch processing, pub-sub architecture, websockets
• Database scalability & systems-level performance optimization
• Familiarity with infra-as-code, especially in AWS (e.g. configuring with Terraform, docker container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines)
• Ability to problem-solve from a “solutions-first” and “product-first” perspective

Qualifications

• B.Tech from top IITs with CSE branch and 9+ CGPA

Nice to Have

• Interest or prior experience in finance (e.g. trading, quant research, banking, brokerage, crypto exchange)
• Some DevOps/SRE experience, especially with Terraform + AWS Cloudwatch stack

Skills

* Required skills