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Company Name

UpRecruit

Job Title

Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

**Job Title:** Senior Backend Engineer **Role Summary** Design and scale core trading infrastructure for a real-time, peer-to-peer prediction marketplace. Focus on building high-performance systems for market data, order matching, and distributed trading platforms. **Expectations** Candidate must have 4+ years of backend engineering experience, with expertise in distributed systems, low-latency architecture, and real-time processing required. Requires autonomous problem-solving in dynamic environments. **Key Responsibilities** - Design and implement deterministic state machines for trading, settlement, and lifecycle processes. - Build and optimize order books, matching logic, and market data pipelines. - Architect high-throughput, low-latency systems with strong correctness and consistency guarantees. - Develop real-time market data ingestion, distribution, and replay systems. - Implement risk controls, session management, and order gateway infrastructure. - Build developer-first APIs for UI and algorithmic trading integration. - Collaborate on architectural decisions for scalability and regulatory compliance. - Support reliability initiatives with observability, failover strategies, and production debugging. **Required Skills** - Proficiency in **Go, Rust, or C++**. - Experience with **distributed**, **event-driven**, or **real-time systems**. - Strong understanding of **concurrency, ordering semantics, and consistency tradeoffs**. - Experience with **relational databases** (e.g., PostgreSQL). - Expertise in profiling, performance optimization, and low-latency system design. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. - Certifications not specified.

New york city, United states

Hybrid

Senior

26-01-2026