Senior Backend Engineer, Trading Platforms

Altruist; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance

401k savings plan with a 4% match

16 week paid parental leave

Professional growth and development opportunities

Job summary

Altruist is seeking Staff Back End Engineers as part of their growing Trading team. The role is remote for candidates in New York, NY, or Chicago, IL with some travel expected. Candidates will lead engineering best practices and work on building scalable services and user-facing applications.

With a strong emphasis on collaboration and a commitment to best practices in software engineering, Altruist offers a competitive salary range of $200,000 to $285,000, alongside a range of dynamic perks and benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems.
• 2+ years of recent experience building low latency trading systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices.
• Analyze and solve complex problems across multiple user personas and workflows.
• Build customer-centric scalable and performant applications and features.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

AWS

Postgres

Kubernetes

Education

B.A. / B.S. degree in Computer Science or Engineering/Mathematics

Job description

Altruist is seeking Staff Back End Engineers as part of their growing Trading team. The role is remote for candidates in New York, NY, or Chicago, IL with some travel expected. Candidates will lead engineering best practices and work on building scalable services and user-facing applications.

With a strong emphasis on collaboration and a commitment to best practices in software engineering, Altruist offers a competitive salary range of $200,000 to $285,000, alongside a range of dynamic perks and benefits.