Principal Backend Development Engineer(Golang)

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanqeeb in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced Go developer to build and maintain trading tool modules, focusing on concurrency, low-latency systems, and scalable engines. You will work on strategies, bots, and the end-to-end trading stack in a 24x7 production environment.

You will participate in design reviews, implement observability tooling, and ensure code quality and reliability. Proficiency in English and hands-on experience with Aeron, Kafka, or Redis Streams is preferred, with optional

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Go development with concurrency, memory, and GC understanding.
• Experience designing high-concurrency, low-latency systems and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with messaging middlewares: Aeron, Kafka, Redis Streams.
• Strong engineering discipline with maintainable code and thorough reviews.
• Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain trading tool modules, including strategies and bots.
• Design scalable and reliable trading tool engines.
• Participate in technical and code reviews.
• Build observability infrastructure: monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging.
• Contribute to production incident investigations and post-mortems.
• Own code quality and reliability for production services; ensure stability and performance.

Skills

Go development

Concurrency/low-latency design

Messaging middlewares

Code quality discipline

English proficiency

Tools

Aeron

Kafka

Redis Streams

Job description

Key Responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain trading tool modules, including trading strategies and trading bots.
2. Design highly scalable and reliable trading tool engines.
3. Participate in technical design reviews and code reviews.
4. Build system observability infrastructure, including monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, and logging.
5. Participate in production incident investigations and post-mortem reviews.
6. Take ownership of code quality and reliability for services running in production, ensuring stability, performance, and minimal downtime (24x7 environment).

Requirements

1. 3+ years of Go development experience, with a deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, memory model, and garbage collection (GC) mechanisms.
2. Experience designing high-concurrency, low-latency systems, with familiarity with common performance bottlenecks and optimization techniques.
3. Familiarity with messaging middlewares such as Aeron, Kafka and Redis Streams, and their applications in streaming data architectures.
4. Strong engineering discipline, with an emphasis on clean, maintainable code, thorough code reviews, and a strong sense of accountability for production systems.
5. Advanced English proficiency (written and verbal).

Nice to Have

• Experience with C++ and/or Java in low-latency environments.
• Familiarity with FIX protocol and SBE (Simple Binary Encoding)