Senior Lead Backend Engineer

Design, build, and scale backend infrastructure supporting trading execution, regulatory reporting, user accounts, and asset custody. Architect distributed systems for high-throughput financial transactions, own service reliability, performance, and security, and maintain CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tooling. Partner with product and compliance teams to deliver regulatory-compliant features and contribute to engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend infrastructure for trading execution, regulatory reporting, user accounts, and asset custody.
• Architect and evolve large-scale distributed systems for high-throughput financial transactions.
• Own the reliability, performance, and security of core backend services.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated monitoring, and observability tooling.
• Partner with product and compliance teams to implement features that meet user and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and champion clean code, TDD, code review, and documentation practices.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and shape the engineering culture as the team scales.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of Java development experience.
• Experience architecting large-scale complex systems and addressing performance, reliability, and security requirements.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and concurrency programming.
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and automated monitoring.
• Experience with clean coding and TDD.
• Fluency in English.
• Proficiency in Rust.
• Professional experience writing and deploying blockchain smart contracts.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Fully expensed equipment.
• Remote-flexible work.
• Opportunity to build core financial infrastructure from scratch at a fast-growing licensed fintech.
• Collaborative, international, and high-calibre engineering team.