Senior Backend Engineer: Real-Time Cloud-Native Go

Hermeneutic Investments Ltd.; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

hermeneutic research in Hong Kong seeks a seasoned Backend Engineer to build high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure for data pipelines and trading workflows. You will deliver real-time ingestion and low-latency processing in a production-grade Go environment, collaborating with trading, infra, and data teams.

The role demands deep Go expertise, experience with distributed systems, and a strong operational mindset.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend development in production-grade systems.
• 3+ years Go experience or deep backend background with agentic workflows.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading large-scale system design and mentoring engineers on best practices.
• Proven track record designing and deploying microservice architectures in high-throughput environments.
• Solid understanding of messaging queues and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud-native apps and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of high-performance, cloud-native backends in Go.
• Drive engineering excellence with code quality, best practices, and mentorship.
• Adopt AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery while ensuring quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with trading, product, and infra teams on system requirements.
• Own production services, ensuring observability, reliability, and security.
• Contribute to CI/CD improvements and automation.
• Lead code reviews and technical discussions to raise standards.
• Deploy and manage services with cloud-native tools.
• Monitor, debug, and respond to on-call incidents.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

High-availability systems

Microservices

Performance optimization

Networking (TCP/UDP)

Cloud-native architectures

On-call incident response

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB

ClickHouse

Job description

hermeneutic research in Hong Kong seeks a seasoned Backend Engineer to build high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure for data pipelines and trading workflows. You will deliver real-time ingestion and low-latency processing in a production-grade Go environment, collaborating with trading, infra, and data teams.

The role demands deep Go expertise, experience with distributed systems, and a strong operational mindset.