Staff Backend Engineer

MLabs; Remote; SGD 103,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to architect and maintain high-performance trading systems. This role requires proven experience in trading infrastructures and a strong grasp of systems design. Key responsibilities include collaborating with executive leadership to drive engineering strategies and optimizing services for high throughput. The position offers a competitive salary in a fully remote setup for candidates based in Asia, reflecting the firm's rapid growth in the market.

Benefits

High-impact ownership

Executive collaboration

Competitive package

Qualifications

• Proven experience building high-stakes infrastructure for trading or financial systems.
• Strong intuition and expertise in distributed computing and performance optimization.
• Demonstrable high ownership and self-starter mentality.

Responsibilities

• Drive core engineering strategy alongside the CEO and founding engineers.
• Design and build robust backend systems for trading infrastructure.
• Optimize services for maximum performance under high market conditions.

Skills

Systems design

Distributed computing

Performance optimization

Tools

Node.js

Python

MongoDB

AWS Serverless

Job description

Staff Backend Engineer: High-Frequency Trading Systems

Location: Remote – Fully remote in Asia
Compensation: $80K - $100K

Join a hyper‑growth technology firm defining the future at the intersection of Prediction Markets, AI, and Blockchains. We are experiencing a rapid scale‑up, currently managing $200 million in annualized volume with weekly growth rates exceeding 100%. Our platform is backed by leading institutional capital, including a major $500 million AUM digital asset fund and an elite AI/crypto accelerator known for its sub‑1% acceptance rate.

This is a critical, high‑leverage role to own and scale mission‑critical trading systems. You will work on performance‑critical infrastructure where correctness, ultra‑low latency, and reliability are non‑negotiable. The Staff Backend Engineer will be responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining the core trading infrastructure. This role focuses on low‑latency, high‑throughput systems that sit directly in the execution path, operating close to real money and high market risk.

What You'll Do

• Work directly alongside the CEO, COO, and founding engineers, driving core engineering strategy
• Design and build robust backend systems for Order Routing, Execution, Pricing Engines, and Reconciliation and Settlement
• Optimize services for maximum performance, ensuring extreme latency targets, high throughput, and fault tolerance are met
• Make critical architectural decisions that have immediate and direct production impact on a global‑scale platform
• Work with a modern and scalable tech stack including Node.js, Python, MongoDB, and AWS Serverless

Requirements

• Proven experience building high‑stakes infrastructure for trading, exchange, or financial systems
• Strong intuition and expertise in systems design, distributed computing, and performance optimization
• Demonstrable high ownership, self‑starter mentality, and comfort working long hours on complex, time‑sensitive problems
• Must be based in Asia to align with the team’s operational base and key market hours

Benefits

• High‑Impact Ownership: Full autonomy and ownership over core business logic and trading systems
• Executive Collaboration: Direct, hands‑on collaboration with the CEO, COO, and founding team
• Exponential Growth: Opportunity to scale your career and the platform at a company experiencing triple‑digit percentage weekly volume growth
• Competitive Package: Highly competitive salary and a significant equity component reflective of the company’s hyper‑growth trajectory

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