Senior Backend Engineer

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November 27

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Topdown Charts

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Finance • B2B • SaaS

Topdown Charts is a chart-driven macro research house focused on global asset allocation and providing subscription research and charts to institutional fund managers. It offers investment ideas, risk-management input, meaningful macro insights, and asset allocation studies designed by a former fund management insider to help investment decision-makers oversee large portfolios and communicate expertise to their end clients.

1 - 10 employees

Founded 2016

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Reporting into the Chief Product & Technology Officer, we're seeking Backend Engineers to lead the creation of scalable, intelligent infrastructure from the ground up. • Shape how our platform operates, integrates, and scales, combining robust backend services, enterprise integrations, and AI-powered capabilities. • Build connectors to enterprise software, design data migration and ingestion systems. • Security, SOC 2 compliance, multi-tenant architecture, observability, performance at scale. • Build backend services powering user-facing features. • AWS ops (ECS, Aurora, S3), CI/CD, monitoring, production reliability. • Generalist role, flex across domains based on priorities, not stay in a silo.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years backend experience, including 2+ years at early-stage startup (0-to-1 experience) • Production systems experience at scale, you know what 'production-ready' means • Product sense, you understand why we build and can influence what we build • Ownership mindset, you've led initiatives end-to-end • Strong fundamentals: APIs, databases, distributed systems, security, cloud • Technical: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or similar • PostgreSQL and query optimization • AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) • API design, authentication (OAuth, JWT) • Observability and monitoring • Security best practices, compliance frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive salary and meaningful equity ownership in a pre-funded, high-growth startup. • Top of the line benefits package including 100% employer paid extended health and dental for you and your family. • A fully remote, flexible work environment with autonomy and ownership. • A team that values collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.