Remote Staff Backend Engineer - Trading Systems

PT Ajaib Sekuritas Asia; Jakarta Pusat; Hybrid; IDR 600,000,000 - 1,000,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonus

Private Insurance

Paid Time Off

Learning & Development

Hybrid Work Arrangement

Career Growth

Employee Perks

Collaborative & High-Ownership Culture

Job summary

PT Ajaib Sekuritas Asia is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for the Investment team to steer the technical direction of stock trading systems across multiple squads. You will tackle hardest problems around correctness, latency and reliability at peak volumes, while staying hands-on where it matters most.

The role requires 8+ years in backend engineering, strong Java/Go expertise, and deep experience with microservices, Kafka, Redis, and cloud platforms. A capital markets background is a plus.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in professional software engineering, with distributed systems leadership.
• Expert in Java or Go, with strong backend design skills.
• Strong microservices, observability, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Kafka, Redis, and both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Cloud experience on GCP or AWS.
• Background in capital markets or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and architecture for trading systems across teams.
• Design fault-tolerant, low-latency services and review critical designs.
• Ensure correctness of financial flows, idempotency, reconciliation and audit trails.
• Plan for peak load and failure scenarios, drive load testing.
• Identify risks, trade-offs, and align with business & regulatory needs.
• Lead incident investigations and drive lasting improvements.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, observability, security and performance.
• Collaborate with managers, product, operations, and compliance.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership.

Skills

Java

Go

Distributed systems

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's / Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Redis

AWS

GCP

Job description

PT Ajaib Sekuritas Asia is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for the Investment team to steer the technical direction of stock trading systems across multiple squads. You will tackle hardest problems around correctness, latency and reliability at peak volumes, while staying hands-on where it matters most.

The role requires 8+ years in backend engineering, strong Java/Go expertise, and deep experience with microservices, Kafka, Redis, and cloud platforms. A capital markets background is a plus.