Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

Our client is 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. What You Will Do • 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. • Work closely with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to understand system requirements and deliver performant solutions. • Take ownership of production services, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance tuning. Optimize systems performance and ensure system stability, reliability, and security. • Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD improvements to support rapid deployment and operational agility. • Conduct in-depth code reviews, lead technical discussions, and influence engineering culture and standards. • Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and participate in code reviews and design discussions. • Deploy and manage services leveraging cloud-native tools and best practices • Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems and be a part of the on-call incident response team in a high-uptime environment What You Will Need • 5+ years of backend development experience, including 3+ years with Go in production-grade systems. • Experience leading large-scale system design and mentoring engineers on engineering best practices. • Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization in Go. • Proven track record of designing and deploying microservice architectures in high-availability, high-throughput environments. • Solid understanding of message queues, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing. • Strong understanding of microservice architecture and REST/gRPC APIs. • Strong understanding of networking data transmission protocols (TCP, UDP, WSS, etc.) • Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications • Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration engines (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes). • Proficiency with message brokers (e.g., Kafka) and distributed systems. • Knowledge of data storage technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series databases.