ProphetX · New York, NY, United States
Skills: Python, Java, SQL, AWS, Docker, CI/CD
Description
We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer (IC4) to set technical direction across multiple teams and own our most complex, high-impact systems. You’ll solve ambiguous problems at the platform level, shape architecture for our exchange and trading infrastructure, and raise the engineering bar across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for critical systems that span multiple teams. Lead cross-team initiatives from design through delivery, aligning engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders. Own the reliability, latency, and scalability of core exchange systems, and lead incident response and postmortems for major issues. Make and document key architectural decisions, balancing innovation, risk, and regulatory requirements. Break ambiguous, org-level problems into workstreams and delegate effectively to senior and junior engineers. Partner with product and leadership to influence roadmap and prioritization with technical insight. Proactively seek development opportunities and share knowledge with peers and junior engineers.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
7+ years of backend experience, with deep expertise in Go, Java, C++, or Python (Go strongly preferred) Proven track record designing and operating highly scalable, low-latency, real-time distributed systems in production Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture (Kafka), and RESTful and WebSocket API design Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data modeling and performance tuning Extensive experience with AWS or equivalent, Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD at scale Experience with observability and incident management for production systems Experience in trading, exchange, fintech, or other high-throughput transactional systems is strongly preferred Demonstrated cross-team leadership and the ability to explain complex tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences Strong communicator …truncated… u share in what we’re building A…
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