Backend Trading Engineer

Our client is building the next generation of trading infrastructure — a high-performance, scalable backend platform powering real-time decision-making and automated trading systems. The team is compact, highly senior, with zero bureaucracy.
 

We are looking for a Backend Trading Engineer who will design, build, and optimize the backend systems that process trading data, power trading logic, and keep our platform reliable under load.

What you will work on

• Build and improve backend components for trading infrastructure: data ingestion, normalization, routing, and real-time processing
• Develop scalable distributed systems and internal APIs
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and throughput
• Integrate backend components with trading and strategy engines
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for mission-critical services
• Contribute to architecture decisions and overall technical direction

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with Python
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, messaging, and system design
• Experience with real-time data processing (streams, pipelines, queues)
• Understanding of performance profiling, optimization, and debugging
• Experience working in fast-paced, high-ownership engineering teams

Nice to have

• Experience building trading or financial systems
• Experience with Go / Rust / or a modern high-performance backend language
• Knowledge of market data, order books, or trading workflows
• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with caching systems, pub/sub, or event-driven architectures

What we offer

• Work on technically complex, performance-sensitive systems
• Small team → huge ownership and direct product impact
• Modern stack, no legacy
• High autonomy and engineering freedom
• Competitive compensation