Senior Technical Architect

Senior Technical Architect Trading Platform

Experience: 15+ Years

Location: Gurgaon (WFO)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

We are hiring a Technical Architect to design and scale a mission-critical, ultra-low latency stock

broking platform built for massive scale and peak market volatility.

The role requires deep capital markets expertise and strong experience building

high-throughput, deterministic real-time systems in regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end architecture of a high-performance trading platform.

Design systems for ultra-low latency, high TPS, and predictable performance.

Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with zero-downtime principles.

Drive active-active, multi-region architecture strategy and DR readiness.

Lead performance benchmarking, tuning, and capacity planning.

Establish architectural governance and engineering best practices.

Collaborate with business, product, and compliance teams.

Mentor senior engineers and lead architecture reviews.

Mandatory Experience

15+ years in backend/distributed systems engineering.

Proven experience building ultra-low latency, high-scale systems.

Mandatory 3-5 years of experience in stock broking / trading platforms / capital markets.

Experience handling mission-critical systems with strict SLAs.

Exposure to high-volume, real-time transaction systems.

Domain Expertise (Must Have Broking Platforms)

Strong hands-on understanding of: Order & Execution

Complete order lifecycle in broking (validation risk checks routing exchange

acknowledgement trade confirmation settlement).

Ultra-low latency trade routing and deterministic execution flows.

Order state management, reconciliation, and audit trails.

Market Data & Charting

Market feed ingestion (tick-by-tick data, LTP, depth).

High-throughput feed processing and normalization.

Real-time charting data pipelines and aggregation strategies.

Portfolio, Risk & P&L

Real-time portfolio tracking and position management.

MTM and real-time P&L computation.

Pre-trade and post-trade risk validation.

Margin and exposure management logic.

Distributed Broking Architecture

Data movement across multiple services (OMS, RMS, portfolio, reporting, notifications).

Event propagation and consistency in distributed trading systems.

High-throughput inter-service communication patterns.

Tech Compliance & Governance

Understanding of broking technology compliance requirements.

Data encryption (in-transit & at-rest).

Secure key management practices.

Data retention, archival, and backup strategies.

Disaster recovery and audit-readiness considerations.

Technical Skills

Core Engineering

Strong proficiency in Go (mandatory).

Strong proficiency in Java (mandatory).

Deep understanding of concurrency, distributed systems, and networking fundamentals.

Communication & Architecture

Hands-on experience with gRPC (public APIs and inter-service communication).

Strong experience designing distributed architectures.

Experience leading or contributing to large-scale architecture revamps.

Strong understanding of data consistency models and service decomposition.

Event-Driven & Messaging

Experience building event-driven systems using Kafka.

Expertise in asynchronous processing and high-throughput event pipelines.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Experience hosting services on AWS and/or GCP.

Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment architecture.

Active-active setup and high-throughput region design.

Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture and RTO/RPO planning.

Containerization and orchestration exposure preferred.

What We Value

Performance-first engineering mindset.

Strong architectural ownership and accountability.

Ability to operate in high-pressure trading environments.

Clear technical leadership and decision-making capability.