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Backend Engineer for Derivatives

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Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Wed, Nov 04, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Building backend services for futures trading, the full-time Backend Engineer for Derivatives will develop systems related to orders, positions, margin, funding, and settlement in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities
  • Build backend services for futures trading, including orders, positions, margin, funding, and settlement
  • Transform complex trading and risk rules into correct, well-tested code in collaboration with product and risk teams
  • Enhance latency, throughput, and stability of systems under peak market conditions while owning monitoring and incident response
Required qualifications
  • Experience building high-performance backend services in Go or Java
  • Understanding of derivatives concepts such as margin, leverage, liquidation, and funding
  • Proven experience with low-latency, high-concurrency systems and maintaining their stability in production
  • Ability to write precise, well-tested code and conduct thorough reviews of others' work
  • Bonus: Experience at an exchange, broker, or trading firm, and familiarity with matching or risk systems

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