Senior Backend Engineer Financial Markets
Employment Info
JOB DETAILS
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production.
- Strong programming experience in one or more JVM languages (e.g. Kotlin, Java) or a comparable backend stack, and a willingness to work primarily in the JVM ecosystem.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: concurrency, data consistency, idempotency, retries, backoff, and failure modes in networked services.
- Experience designing and working with REST and/or gRPC APIs, and persistence layers using relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and/or key-value stores.
- Proficiency with event-driven architectures and message brokers/streams (e.g. Kafka or similar).
- Strong focus on testing and quality: unit, integration and contract tests; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Good grasp of observability: metrics, logging, tracing and alerting, and how to use them to debug production issues.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills; comfortable working with cross-functional partners in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and own backend services for FX pricing, execution and risk management, with a focus on performance, correctness and reliability.
- Contribute to the evolution of our FX platform architecture (microservices, event-driven workflows, Kafka, gRPC, SQL/NoSQL datastores), keeping latency low and throughput high.
- Implement and maintain robust controls for pricing, limits, risk, reconciliation and monitoring, ensuring our systems behave predictably under stress and failure scenarios.
- Work end-to-end on features: from requirements and solution design, to implementation, automated testing, deployment and operational runbooks.
- Collaborate with Product, Treasury, Risk, Data and other engineering teams to design APIs and data contracts that are easy to use, observable and backward compatible.
- Instrument services with metrics, logs and tracing, and use these to drive capacity planning, performance optimisation and incident resolution.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions and knowledge-sharing sessions; mentor less-experienced engineers where appropriate.
- Take part in our on-call rotation (with strong observability, runbooks and support from the team) to ensure the FX platform remains reliable and highly available.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in financial services, FX pricing, execution or risk management
Are you interested in this position?
Apply by clicking on the “Apply Now” button below!
#DesignFintech #GlobalDesigners
#FintechInnovation #CreativeJobs
#DesignHub
#Tech Meets Design
#DesignerNetwork
#Myausjob
Related Jobs
Your Next Career Move Starts Here