System Architect - High-Performance Trading Backend

EXANTE; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + bonus

Corporate benefits

Inspiring culture

Education & training

Global career opportunities

Corporate events

Job summary

EXANTE seeks an experienced System Architect to own the design and evolution of our high-performance trading backend. You will bridge technical depth and business vision, working across engineering, product, and leadership to build scalable systems powering our trading platform.

Reporting to the Back-end director, this role offers remote/hybrid/on-site options, with a focus on monolith decomposition, real-time streaming, and distributed architectures in a global fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Kubernetes and microservices architecture at scale.
• Hands-on background in trading platform development or fintech systems.
• Proven track record in monolith decomposition - migrating legacy systems to distributed architectures.
• Experience with real-time stream processing - event-driven design, Kafka, or equivalent.
• Strong proficiency in databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse, including data modelling and performance tuning.
• Solid development background in JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, or Scala) in backend production systems.
• Experience in forex brokerage, financial trading, or a related capital markets environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and continuously improve high-availability, low-latency trading backend infrastructure with a focus on uptime, throughput, and operational resilience
• Partner with product owners to gather and interpret business requirements, translate them into clear technical specifications, and lead initiatives from design through production release
• Collaborate closely with the management team to align architectural direction with long-term product strategy and organisational goals
• Drive the decomposition of monolithic systems into maintainable, independently deployable microservices, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption
• Define and champion engineering standards, architecture review processes, and best practices across teams

Skills

Kubernetes

Microservices

Trading systems

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

Java

Kotlin

Scala

Forex trading

Fintech

Monolith decomposition

Job description

EXANTE seeks an experienced System Architect to own the design and evolution of our high-performance trading backend. You will bridge technical depth and business vision, working across engineering, product, and leadership to build scalable systems powering our trading platform.

Reporting to the Back-end director, this role offers remote/hybrid/on-site options, with a focus on monolith decomposition, real-time streaming, and distributed architectures in a global fintech environment.