Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate backend microservices in Go for trading, accounts, wallets, market data, and settlement.
Implement high-throughput, low-latency REST and gRPC APIs and event-driven workflows using Kafka, with strong correctness and data-integrity guarantees.
Integrate with blockchain nodes, custody providers, payment rails, and external liquidity sources.
Write robust tests (unit/integration), maintain Azure Pipelines CI/CD, and ship features incrementally behind feature flags.
Instrument services with structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing; monitor via Azure Monitor and dashboards.
Participate in design reviews, API contract definition, and code reviews; document key architectural decisions.
Triage bugs, analyze production incidents, and contribute actionable findings to post-mortems.

Skills & Competencies

Strong, idiomatic Go development skills with a solid grasp of concurrency patterns.
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), Redis, and message queues (Kafka).
Good testing discipline; comfortable with CI/CD, Azure Pipelines, and Git workflows.
Performance and security awareness; able to profile Go services and resolve bottlenecks.
Clear communicator and collaborator.

Experience Requirements

5+ years of professional backend development experience, with at least 2 years in Go.
Delivered and operated production microservices with comprehensive testing and CI/CD.
Worked with REST/gRPC APIs, OAuth/JWT authentication flows, and event-driven/asynchronous systems.

Nice to Have

Experience building trading systems, payment platforms, or other high-stakes financial backends.
Familiarity with blockchain node integrations, wallet management, or custody service APIs.
Exposure to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Service Bus, and New Relic.
Understanding of AML/KYC data flows and financial regulatory requirements.

Senior Back End Engineer