Senior Backend Engineer - Trading & FX Platform, Remote

Hercle; Italia; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/remote working

Job summary

Hercle in Italy is hiring a Senior Back-End Developer for the Trading squad to build low-latency order management, RFQ and execution services across venues, and to evolve tokenised products.

You will work with C#/.NET, CQRS, AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted coding, owning end-to-end trade lifecycle and ensuring performance and compliance. Hybrid work options and focus on global cross-border finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.
• 5+ years building back-end systems in a strongly typed language (e.g. C#/.NET, Java, Kotlin, Go), ideally in trading, fintech or digital-asset environments.
• Strong grasp of OOP, design patterns, distributed systems, concurrency, multithreading and performance optimisation.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, CI/CD, Git and testing frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving, attention to detail and ownership in a fast-paced environment.
• Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents on production work, with the judgement to review and own what they produce.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate low-latency services for order management, RFQ and execution across multiple liquidity venues and providers.
• Build and evolve tokenised products offering (e.g. DeFi vaults, tokenised MMFs), from subscription and redemption to on-chain settlement and position tracking.
• Scale Price API and market data pipelines for accurate, fast and resilient institutional quotes.
• Automate the trade lifecycle end to end, from order capture to fees, booking and settlement, across traditional and on-chain rails.
• Turn trading-desk workflows into robust, auditable software, with product and compliance
• Write clean, documented code, review peers' work, fix bottlenecks and bugs, and improve CI/CD.

Skills

OOP

Design patterns

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Multithreading

Performance optimization

AI coding agents

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Git

Testing frameworks

AWS

Kubernetes

C# / .NET

Job description

Hercle in Italy is hiring a Senior Back-End Developer for the Trading squad to build low-latency order management, RFQ and execution services across venues, and to evolve tokenised products.

You will work with C#/.NET, CQRS, AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted coding, owning end-to-end trade lifecycle and ensuring performance and compliance. Hybrid work options and focus on global cross-border finance.