Experienced Backend Developer

A world-leading online trading platform with hundreds of thousands of active users placing millions of trades a month is looking for an Experienced Backend Developer.

It is the company's mission to disrupt the age-old trade markets by building digital technologies that make trading around the world accessible and more efficient.

The backend tech-led mission is to help lead the company's technological revolution internally and externally by designing and building new financial products and large-scale systems.

What you’ll do

· Own, lead, architect, and implement one of the company's domains e.g. trading, market data, online payments, etc.

· Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize good engineering and organizational practices.

· Build out the C# services that power the company's platform, in a way that can simultaneously serve huge volumes of concurrent users and data streams.

· Tackle technical challenges - performance, fault-tolerance, security, and live production issues.

· You'll take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team.

· Work closely with large amounts of data and write efficient queries against it

· Design and build out the company's infrastructure for scalability, using distributed techniques and patterns.

· Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to execute the company’s roadmap.

· Support other people to "level up" or raise the capabilities of the team in their domain.

REQUIREMENTS

Who you are

· You are looking to make a significant business impact and measure it against quantifiable KPIs based on real-life data.

· You have experience writing highly optimized SQL.

· You get excited about challenging problems and have a love for clean code.

· Very knowledgeable and passionate about modern software development and have a strong foundation in object-oriented programming, data structures, and design patterns.

· You are capable of delivering not only working software but also well-crafted software.

· You are fluent in C# or Java and have a deep understanding of REST.

· You have proven experience in a distributed service-oriented environment - designing, analyzing, optimizing code, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

· You are capable of executing large-scale refactoring as well as building solutions from scratch.

· Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with effective communication skills and drive.

· You have grit, a persistent/determined work ethic, and a willingness to try anything and everything.

· You are interested in trading, and user experience, and have the ability to work well with cross-functional domains.