Sr. Backend Engineer II - Investment
Core
Design, build, and run scalable backend services and APIs for stock trading, market data, and portfolio features, ensuring accuracy and stability during high traffic.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (trading systems)
Builds
Order flow, market data, portfolio, and settlement services
Domain
Fintech / Capital Markets
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Java, Go, microservices, REST/gRPC, event-driven design, relational/NoSQL databases, Redis, Kafka, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), containers, CI/CD
Preferred skills
Capital markets experience, brokerage, payments, regulated high-traffic environments
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable backend services and APIs; own larger features end-to-end including monitoring and on-call; ensure correctness in money and quantity handling; integrate with external systems like exchanges and banks; lead design reviews and code reviews; investigate production incidents; mentor mid-level engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC