Staff Backend Engineer - Real-Time Trading Risk (Remote)

Serv Recruitment Agency; Arizona; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Wellness stipend

Paid time off

Company holidays

Job summary

Take Profit Trader, a high-growth proprietary trading firm, seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to lead and scale real-time risk and trading systems. The role focuses on building low-latency backend services, streaming pipelines, and a scalable risk platform while mentoring engineers and guiding technical strategy.

This remote, nationwide position offers a competitive salary and an end-of-year bonus, with collaboration across teams to uphold platform reliability, data integrity, and performance in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years in backend or distributed systems engineering.
• 3–4+ years in Staff/Principal level leadership.
• Proven experience in high-throughput, low-latency, real-time production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience developing backend services and APIs using .NET Core.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building the real-time notification platform that delivers low-latency alerts and account updates to traders and internal systems
• Building and operating Kafka/MSK streaming pipelines that ingest live trading data from multiple upstream systems
• Designing scalable event-driven architectures with durable messaging, replay capabilities, and optimized partitioning strategies
• Developing stateful stream processing applications that support risk detection, fraud monitoring, and market integrity initiatives
• Designing and optimizing PostgreSQL and time-series database schemas for both operational workloads and historical analytics
• Building and evolving production-grade .NET Core APIs that support trading, risk, and fraud systems
• Defining service reliability standards, monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure highly available systems
• Driving architecture decisions across the engineering organization while mentoring senior engineers and contributing hands-on to implementation
• Partnering closely with engineering leadership to establish technical standards and long-term platform strategy

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Staff/Principal leadership

Real-time systems

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Tools

.NET Core

Kafka/MSK

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB/InfluxDB

AWS

Job description

Take Profit Trader, a high-growth proprietary trading firm, seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to lead and scale real-time risk and trading systems. The role focuses on building low-latency backend services, streaming pipelines, and a scalable risk platform while mentoring engineers and guiding technical strategy.

This remote, nationwide position offers a competitive salary and an end-of-year bonus, with collaboration across teams to uphold platform reliability, data integrity, and performance in a