Senior Backend Engineer: Real-Time, Low-Latency, Remote

Jobgether; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 130,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Remote setup stipend

Global team offsites

Flexible vacation

Learning & development budget

Permanent full-time

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a partner-led, fully remote team focused on the Hyperliquid ecosystem. You will own critical backend systems powering real-time trading, data pipelines, and high-volume databases, collaborating with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver robust APIs.

Bring 5+ years of backend experience, especially with TypeScript, and strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, and real-time technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend engineering experience, ideally with strong production experience in TypeScript.
• Proven experience designing and operating real-time systems using WebSockets, event streaming, pub/sub, or similar technologies.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis; experience with ClickHouse or another columnar database is highly valued.
• Demonstrated experience operating highly available services at significant scale.
• Strong understanding of trading concepts, including orders, fills, order books, positions, and execution.
• Experience designing APIs for latency-sensitive, high-throughput applications and clients.
• Excellent debugging and performance optimization skills, including experience diagnosing slow queries, memory leaks, and production bottlenecks.
• Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and integration patterns.
• Familiarity with EVM-based systems, DeFi, or on-chain data is advantageous.
• Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming technologies is a plus.
• Background in trading platforms, fintech, low-latency applications, or other performance-critical environments is a plus.
• Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own key architecture decisions across backend systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Build and operate real-time data pipelines handling order book updates, trades, and market events.
• Design, develop, and maintain API infrastructure including GraphQL and WebSockets for web and mobile clients.
• Work with PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse to support high-volume trading data.
• Optimize queries, caching strategies, schemas, and data access patterns as volumes grow.
• Instrument services with metrics, monitoring, and alerting; participate in on-call rotations.
• Investigate and resolve latency, memory, performance, and reliability issues under heavy load.
• Partner with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver analytical and real-time data via robust APIs.
• Contribute to a fast-paced 0-to-1 development environment with ownership over builds.

Skills

TypeScript

WebSockets

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a partner-led, fully remote team focused on the Hyperliquid ecosystem. You will own critical backend systems powering real-time trading, data pipelines, and high-volume databases, collaborating with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver robust APIs.

Bring 5+ years of backend experience, especially with TypeScript, and strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, and real-time technologies.