Senior Backend Engineer

Huntingcubeai — United States · Posted ~8 hours ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

Backend development High-throughput distributed systems Real-time systems Golang Async queuing Batch processing Pub/Sub architecture WebSockets Database scalability Systems performance optimization Infrastructure as code AWS Docker CI/CD Rust Python C++ Terraform

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A senior backend engineering role for a self-starting engineer experienced with high-throughput distributed systems. You will harden a core real-time transaction engine, optimize performance, develop new capabilities, and work with asynchronous queues, batch processing, pub/sub, WebSockets, scalable databases, and cloud infrastructure.

Highlights

Join a technical leadership team building and optimizing high-throughput backend systems. The role offers ownership of real-time distributed infrastructure, performance optimization, new feature development, and work on systems requiring 99.9%+ uptime.

Description

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