OpenFX

Senior Backend Engineer (L5) - Core trading

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1 month ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture of the Client Trading Engine, Pricing Engine, Risk Management Engine, and Smart Hedging systems.
  • Set and drive the architectural vision for trading and hedging, taking major architectural decisions through completion.
  • Design scalable systems for growing transaction volume, execution venues, and currency corridors.
  • Establish observability, alerting, fallback, and recovery standards across the trade and risk path.
  • Break ambiguous systems into scoped components with clear contracts and independent deliverability.
  • Write production code and provide hands-on technical leadership.
  • Coach and mentor engineers and raise engineering quality through design reviews and feedback.
  • Partner with product, risk, and engineering managers to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.

Requirements

  • 7–12 years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
  • Deep experience with distributed systems, including consistency, failure modes, and trade-offs.
  • Experience building orchestrators and complex, durable, recoverable long-running workflows.
  • Strong database-at-scale experience, including sharding, multi-region deployments, and data-protection constraints.
  • Track record operating high-scale systems and the observability and operational tooling supporting them.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous problems, define scope, sequence work, and drive delivery.
  • Hands-on coding experience and strong architectural judgment grounded in implementation.
  • Experience using AI coding tools effectively.
  • Influential, collaborative, data-driven, and highly self-directed working style.
  • Fintech, trading, cryptocurrency, financial-data, pricing, spread, hedging, market-microstructure, multi-venue execution, or smart-order-routing experience is helpful.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Equity in a rapidly growing company.
  • Opportunity to work on global financial infrastructure at a fast-paced fintech startup.
  • Collaborative culture emphasizing personal and professional growth.

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About OpenFX

51-200 employees
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