Senior Go Backend Engineer for Core Trading Engine

People Everywhere; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Core trading engine build-up

High ownership & technical influence

Small senior engineering team

Job summary

People Everywhere in Dubai is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to join an international fintech client building a proprietary trading engine from the ground up. You will shape core backend infrastructure, from order execution to distributed services, and own the services you build.

This hands-on role emphasizes performance and correctness, with a migration from Go, and opportunities to influence architecture, tooling, and production readiness in a small, senior team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go or another systems language, with Python in production.
• Willingness to primarily work with Go during migration.
• Strong understanding of concurrent programming, networking, and system-level performance.
• Experience building and operating backend services in production.
• Experience developing trading platforms or financial infrastructure.
• Understanding of order lifecycle, position management, margin calculation, and market data processing.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as NATS, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
• Distributed systems concepts including eventual consistency and idempotency.
• PostgreSQL schema design, queries, transactions, migrations.
• Redis for caching and real-time data.
• Docker and containerized deployments.
• English proficiency at B2 level.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize backend services for the trading server, including order lifecycle, execution, and risk controls.
• Build and maintain microservices communicating through NATS with a focus on reliability and low latency.
• Work with PostgreSQL for transactional data and optimize database performance.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across backend services and PostgreSQL.
• Participate in migrating backend services from Python to Go.
• Design data models and service contracts with high technical quality.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions, code reviews, and incident resolution.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and observability across services.
• Write unit tests and collaborate with QA on integration tests.

Skills

Backend development

Go proficiency

Concurrency

Distributed systems

Production experience

Trading platforms

Order lifecycle

Event-driven architecture

Idempotency

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

English (B2)

Tools

Go

Python

PostgreSQL

Redis

NATS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

AWS ECS

CI/CD

Job description

People Everywhere in Dubai is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to join an international fintech client building a proprietary trading engine from the ground up. You will shape core backend infrastructure, from order execution to distributed services, and own the services you build.

This hands-on role emphasizes performance and correctness, with a migration from Go, and opportunities to influence architecture, tooling, and production readiness in a small, senior team.