Backend Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Backend Engineer - Risk & Trading.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement Python backend services for real-time risk management and trading operations
• Build scalable infrastructure for pricing engines, market creation, and exposure management
• Collaborate with teams to ensure low latency performance and high availability through robust monitoring and CI/CD pipelines

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong focus on Python (FastAPI, Django, or similar)
• Proven ability to design and operate distributed systems with high throughput and low latency
• Experience with message queues/streams (Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub) and caching layers (Redis)
• Familiarity with Elixir/Erlang or a willingness to learn
• Experience in financial or real-time systems is preferred