Staff Backend Engineer – Take Profit Trader

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🕒 July 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Serv Recruitment Agency

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2018

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Serv Recruitment Agency is a boutique recruitment agency specializing in helping growth companies source aligned leaders to drive sustainable growth. With a focus on people strategy, Serv Recruitment Agency assists businesses in creating effective strategies to identify and attract the right talent necessary for organizational growth and sustainability.

📋 Description

• Designing and building the real-time notification platform that delivers low-latency alerts and account updates to traders and internal systems • Building and operating Kafka/MSK streaming pipelines that ingest live trading data from multiple upstream systems • Designing scalable event-driven architectures with durable messaging, replay capabilities, and optimized partitioning strategies • Developing stateful stream processing applications that support risk detection, fraud monitoring, and market integrity initiatives • Designing and optimizing PostgreSQL and time-series database schemas for both operational workloads and historical analytics • Building and evolving production-grade .NET Core APIs that support trading, risk, and fraud systems • Defining service reliability standards, monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure highly available systems • Driving architecture decisions across the engineering organization while mentoring senior engineers and contributing hands-on to implementation • Partnering closely with engineering leadership to establish technical standards and long-term platform strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience • 3 to 4+ years operating at a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership level • Proven experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency, real-time production systems • Strong hands-on experience developing backend services and APIs using .NET Core • Deep expertise with WebSockets or comparable persistent connection technologies, including scaling, connection management, and delivery guarantees • Strong experience with Kafka, MSK, or similar streaming platforms, including topic design, partitioning, and consumer scaling • Experience building stateful stream processing applications using Kafka Streams, Flink, or similar technologies • Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL expertise, including replication strategies and schema optimization • Experience working with time-series databases such as TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, InfluxDB, or similar technologies • Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts including consistency models, idempotency, fault tolerance, delivery guarantees, and backpressure • Experience within trading, fintech, financial services, payments, fraud detection, or risk systems is highly preferred • Experience with AWS streaming services, infrastructure as code, or trade surveillance systems is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Wellness stipend • Paid time off • Company holidays