Senior Backend Engineer

Job Overview We are seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer to help build high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure to support our research, trading, and data pipelines. This role is crucial to enabling real-time data ingestion and processing workflows, and ensuring our systems can meet the demands of a high-uptime, low-latency trading environment. The ideal candidate brings deep production experience with Go and modern distributed systems, or comparable depth in other backend languages.

They have extensive experience in production-grade system design and a strong operational mindset. You will work closely with trading, infrastructure, and data teams to design and maintain systems that are fast, reliable, and observable. This is a critical position at the technical core of the firm, ideal for individuals who thrive in fast-moving environments and care deeply about performance, robustness, and continuous improvement

Lead the design and development of robust high-performance, cloud-native backend systems using Go that support real-time data processing and low-latency workflows. Drive engineering excellence through code quality, best practices, and mentorship of other team members. Make effective use of AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to accelerate delivery, while taking full ownership of the quality, correctness, performance, and maintainability of the resulting code.

Work closely with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to understand syste