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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