Staff Backend Architect for AI Infra & Trading Platform

MLabs; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity packages

High autonomy

Collaborative culture

Job summary

MLabs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the core agent runtime and backend infrastructure for a high-frequency trading fleet, and migrate model hosting to in-house infrastructure. You will design and implement backend services, runtime engines, and deployment systems ensuring ultra-low latency, reliability, and autonomous decision making for a growing platform.

Join a high-autonomy team building foundational infrastructure in a new category of autonomous software, with equity and a

Qualifications

• Expert Backend Engineering: Proficiency in writing production-grade code in Go, Python, and Node.js/TypeScript (Go is strongly preferred for runtime services).
• Startup Experience: A proven track record of building complex backend services (APIs, job scheduling, distributed systems) from scratch in a fast-paced environment.
• Real-Time Systems: Deep understanding of low-latency environments, websocket management, and sub-second condition evaluation.
• Database Mastery: Production experience with Postgres, Redis, and at least one analytical database (e.g., ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, or BigQuery).
• Orchestration: Hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and debugging production workloads on Kubernetes (AWS EKS).
• End-to-End Ownership: Demonstrated ability to design, build, deploy, and maintain systems throughout their entire lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Plugin Runtime Ownership: Lead the evolution of the per-agent process, migrating from a distributed Go/Python hybrid to a centralized, high-performance Go service utilizing Postgres state and real-time websocket price feeds
• Rules Engine Engineering: Build a YAML-configurable "Scanner Gateway" to bridge signal production and execution, allowing for complex scoring and filtering without direct code manipulation
• Advanced Execution Systems: Develop and maintain the RatchetStop Backend, a centralized profit-trailing service capable of sub-second evaluation and websocket-based order execution
• Data & Connectivity: Manage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server bridging agents to platform tools, and oversee a high-throughput data pipeline (Redis, Postgres, ClickHouse) for real-time market intelligence ingestion]
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Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Python

Node.js/TypeScript

Real-time systems

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kubernetes (AWS EKS)

CI/CD

Tools

Go

Python

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

TimescaleDB

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

Job description

MLabs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the core agent runtime and backend infrastructure for a high-frequency trading fleet, and migrate model hosting to in-house infrastructure. You will design and implement backend services, runtime engines, and deployment systems ensuring ultra-low latency, reliability, and autonomous decision making for a growing platform.

Join a high-autonomy team building foundational infrastructure in a new category of autonomous software, with equity and a