Remote Staff Backend Engineer — Real-Time Exchange Platform

ProphetX; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within USA

Job summary

ProphetX is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer (IC4) to set technical direction across multiple teams and own our most complex, high-impact systems. You’ll solve ambiguous problems at the platform level, shape architecture for our exchange and trading infrastructure, and raise the engineering bar across the organization.

Join a fully remote role within the United States with competitive compensation and equity opportunities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend experience with Go, Java, C++, or Python (Go preferred).
• Designing and operating highly scalable, low-latency distributed systems in production.
• Deep knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture (Kafka), and RESTful/WebSocket APIs.
• Strong SQL/NoSQL data modeling and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for critical systems across teams.
• Lead cross-team initiatives from design through delivery with stakeholders.
• Own reliability, latency, and scalability of core exchange systems; lead incident response and postmortems.
• Document key architectural decisions balancing innovation, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Break problems into workstreams and delegate to engineers.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Java

C++

Python

Microservices

Kafka

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

ProphetX is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer (IC4) to set technical direction across multiple teams and own our most complex, high-impact systems. You’ll solve ambiguous problems at the platform level, shape architecture for our exchange and trading infrastructure, and raise the engineering bar across the organization.

Join a fully remote role within the United States with competitive compensation and equity opportunities.