Remote Backend Engineer — Crypto Trading APIs

Taraki; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Taraki is hiring a Backend Engineer (Trading APIs) for a fully remote role focused on building integrations between our institutional trading platform and global crypto venues. You will design and implement high‑performance APIs in Golang, contributing to low-latency, scalable infrastructure used by leading financial institutions.

Collaborating with product and infra teams, you will own API connectivity, data ingestion, and market access improvements, while ensuring reliability through testing,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on backend or connectivity engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performant APIs and connectivity modules to external venues (REST, WebSocket, FIX).
• Develop high-quality, low-latency integrations for order routing, trade execution, and data ingestion.
• Monitor and support venue connections and real-time data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to support exchange onboarding and new product launches.
• Contribute to system reliability and observability with proper logging, monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Develop comprehensive automated tests for production readiness.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API design

High-performance

Cloud-native

Tools

Golang

REST APIs

WebSocket

FIX

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Taraki is hiring a Backend Engineer (Trading APIs) for a fully remote role focused on building integrations between our institutional trading platform and global crypto venues. You will design and implement high‑performance APIs in Golang, contributing to low-latency, scalable infrastructure used by leading financial institutions.

Collaborating with product and infra teams, you will own API connectivity, data ingestion, and market access improvements, while ensuring reliability through testing,