Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description About the Role: We’re looking for scrappy self-starter backend developers familiar with high throughput distributed systems. You’ll be part of the team that hardens our core order management engine, optimizes TPS, develops new features, expands to new asset classes, and builds core trading strategies vis-à-vis retail order flow. You will work closely with the founders and be a key part of the technical leadership team. Qualifications A firefighter with a few burns and scars, but not burnt out! ️ 🔥Expertise building real-time high-throughput systems at 99.9%+ uptime SLAGolang experience (or Rust or Python & C++ if no direct Golang experience)Experience building async queuing systems, batch processing, pub-sub architecture, websockets, etc. Database scalability & systems-level performance optimizationFamiliarity with infra-as-code, especially in AWS (e.g. configuring with Terraform, docker container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, etc.) Must be able to problem-solve from a “solutions-first” and “product-first” perspective, rather than “code-first” or “technology-first” Interest or prior experience in finance (e.g. trading, quant research, banking, brokerage, crypto exchange, etc.) Some devops/SRE experience, especially with Terraform + AWS Cloudwatch stack, is a bonus! Required Skills ['C++', 'Python'] Additional Information Education: B.Tech from top IITs with CSE branch and 9+ cgpa Qualification Criteria: Quantitative Developer from top HFTs of India