Senior Backend Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York, New York, Remote - USA

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of multiple large projects within one team, with production-level ownership.
• Translate product requirements into detailed engineering tasks and be the translation layer between product and engineering.
• Monitor product health proactively and drive resolution of functional and performance issues.
• Contribute to the evolution of key systems and frameworks, balancing innovation with reliability.
• Set and uphold best practices in software development across your workstream.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and technologies and drive their adoption.
• Collaborate effectively with offshore and globally distributed engineering teams.
• Analyze complex problems and break them into manageable workstreams for junior engineers.
• Proactively seek development opportunities and share knowledge with peers and junior engineers.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of hands-on backend experience in Go, Java, C++, or Python, with deep Go ecosystem knowledge preferred
• 2+ years building on AWS or equivalent cloud platforms (GCP, Azure)
• Proven experience building highly scalable, real-time systems in a production environment
• Strong command of microservices architecture, including design patterns and best practices
• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous system design, including technologies like Kafka
• Expertise designing RESTful and WebSocket APIs
• In-depth knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Working knowledge of containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, Datadog, or Kibana
• Proficiency with Git or equivalent version control
• Experience with testing frameworks and writing unit tests
• Strong communicator, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proactive, growth-focused, and highly adaptable with a strong sense of ownership

Why Join Us!

• Competitive compensation aligned to role and market
• Equity opportunities so you share in what we’re building
• A clear connection between impact and reward

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible time off built on trust and accountability
• A culture that respects your time and avoids unnecessary meetings

• Fully remote within the U.S.
• Flexibility to work in the way that helps you do your best work

• Take end-to-end ownership of complex backend systems at one of the most interesting startups in fintech right now, from design through production
• Take on a high-impact IC role as the technical anchor for your team, with a direct line between product and engineering
• Help build the real-time systems that earn trust in a brand-new asset class, on a platform that’s already CFTC-regulated