NodeJS Engineer / FinTech Startup

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Stock Options

Equity eligibility

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is looking for a Senior Node.JS Engineer to join a fintech company developing next-generation automated trading platforms. In this role, you will evolve backend systems that support high-performance trading tools and analytics.

The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of Node.JS experience and a solid understanding of asynchronous architectures. The position offers equity eligibility and benefits including medical, dental, vision insurance, and vacation time.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional Node.JS development experience.
• Solid understanding of event loop & async architecture.
• Experience with large datasets or high-throughput systems.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the backend systems that power a high-performance trading and analytics platform.
• Work on infrastructure behind algorithmic trading tools and data ingestion pipelines.

Skills

Node.JS development

Event loop & async architecture

PostgreSQL

Debugging production issues

Tools

Terraform

Monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch)

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Node.JS Engineer to join a venture-backed fintech company building a next-generation platform for automated technical analysis and trading workflows. Our software brings institutional-grade analytics, pattern recognition, signal generation, backtesting, and automated execution, to professional traders, quantitative analysts, and investment teams.

I this role, you’ll help evolve the backend systems that power a high-performance trading and analytics platform. You’ll work on the infrastructure behind algorithmic trading tools, data ingestion pipelines, large-scale testing engines, and a custom scripting environment used by thousands of active market participants.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of professional Node.JS development experience
• Solid understanding of
  • Event loop & async architecture
  • Performance bottlenecks in Node.js
• Experience working with large datasets or high-throughput systems
• PostgreSQL knowledge:
  • Query optimization
  • Indexing strategies
  • Handling large writes
• Experience debugging production issues

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with
  • Performance profiling (CPU/memory)
  • Load testing techniques
  • Distributed systems or microservices
• Understanding of:
  • Serialization formats (JSON, protobuf)
  • Data pipeline design
• Familiarity with:
  • Terraform
  • Monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch)
  • Blue-green or zero-downtime deployments

The Offer

• Equity eligible

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time
• Stock Options