Staff Backend Engineer: Ultra-Low Latency Trading

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

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.