Senior Engineer, Trading
Skills
About the Role
You will architect and build new features and scale a gateway to Finance 2.0 by designing and implementing resilient, scalable event-driven microservices in Go. You will collaborate with platform engineers to set up new services, respond to production issues and alerts, and communicate directly with client technical teams when necessary. You will build and maintain high-performance, low-latency trading systems and troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience, preferably in the FinTech space
- Deep proficiency with Go
- Understanding of SQL and database schema design
- Humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset
- Solid understanding of market structure, order types (Limit, Market, Stop, IOC, FOK), trade lifecycle and risks associated with electronic trading
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex systems
- Hands-on experience developing and maintaining high-performance low-latency trading systems
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to independently formulate and test hypotheses
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Preferred: Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience
- Preferred: Experience at banking-as-a-service, brokerage-as-a-service, or payment-as-a-service business
- Preferred: Experience with digital assets
- Preferred: Experience with distributed systems design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Kafka, ZeroMQ, NATS)
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and development of software in an event-driven microservices environment
- Develop microservices in Go
- Work with platform engineers to set up new services
- Respond to production issues and alerts
- Communicate directly with client technical teams when necessary
Benefits
- Healthcare insurance covering roughly 100% of employee premiums and a portion of spouse/children (U.S. only)
- Vision and dental insurance (U.S. only)
- Chance to earn equity
- Maternity and paternity leave (after 6 months)
- WeWork All Access Membership
- Work-from-home yearly stipend
- Learning and development yearly stipend (after 6 months)