Remote Staff Backend Engineer – Real-Time Trading Systems

Serv Recruitment; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision insurance

Health & Wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Company Holidays

Job summary

Take Profit Trader, a high-growth proprietary trading firm, seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to own backend streaming infrastructure that processes live trading data and delivers low-latency alerts to traders and internal systems.

You will lead design decisions, build Kafka/MSK pipelines, and develop stateful stream processing with PostgreSQL and time-series databases, using .NET Core APIs. This fully remote US role emphasizes reliability, observability, and long-term platform strategy.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and own real-time notification platform delivering low-latency alerts.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Real-time processing

WebSockets

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

System design

Trading/Fintech

Code optimization

Tools

Kafka/MSK

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB/InfluxDB/ClickHouse

.NET Core

WebSockets technology

AWS

Docker

Job description

Take Profit Trader, a high-growth proprietary trading firm, seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to own backend streaming infrastructure that processes live trading data and delivers low-latency alerts to traders and internal systems.

You will lead design decisions, build Kafka/MSK pipelines, and develop stateful stream processing with PostgreSQL and time-series databases, using .NET Core APIs. This fully remote US role emphasizes reliability, observability, and long-term platform strategy.