OpenFX

Senior Backend Engineer (L3) - Trading

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25 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate services for quoting, pricing, spread application, and trade lifecycle management.
  • Own features end-to-end from scoping and technical design through delivery, rollout, adoption, and operational health.
  • Build reliable, low-latency trade-path systems with correct failure handling, retries, idempotency, and safe recovery.
  • Expose trading capabilities across the GUI, public API, and conversational AI surfaces through stable contracts.
  • Instrument systems with logging, metrics, and alerting, participate in on-call, respond to incidents, and implement durable post-mortem fixes.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations, and the Hedging team to connect engineering work to payment volume and revenue.
  • Provide code reviews and design feedback, mentor L1/L2 engineers, and drive engineering-excellence and technical-debt initiatives.

Requirements

  • 4–6 years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
  • Experience building systems for a trading company, exchange, or brokerage on a live trade or order path.
  • Strong system design, data modelling, API design, distributed-systems, object-oriented programming, and low-level design fundamentals.
  • Production engineering experience with observability, complex-system debugging, performance tuning, and incident response.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous problems, scope and sequence deliverables, and operate with high agency.
  • Experience using AI coding tools effectively, along with data-driven decision-making and clear written communication.
  • Preferred experience with pricing, quoting, or spread engines; FX, multi-currency systems, or cross-border payments; and market data, order books, or market microstructure.

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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OpenFX

About OpenFX

51-200 employees
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