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Tech Lead for High Performance Trading Systems (IPO in 2026)
GitRoll
United States
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USD 97,000 - 120,000
Full time
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Job summary
Join GitRoll as a Tech Lead for High Performance Trading Systems, essential in architecting robust systems for a fintech preparing for IPO in 2026. Lead a talented team, optimize trading operations, and influence the architecture of groundbreaking trading infrastructures. This role offers considerable growth potential and competitive equity benefits in a startup culture.
Benefits
Qualifications
- 5+ years backend development experience for Tech Lead role, or 3+ years for Senior Developer.
- Proven experience in high-performance trading systems or real-time financial applications.
- Strong command of architecture and data handling under load.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of trading systems ensuring scalability.
- Collaborate with teams to enhance trading platforms.
- Mentor engineering team promoting innovation.
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$97,000.00/yr - $120,000.00/yr
Company Introduction
Awaed is Saudi Arabia’s leading retail investment platform fintech. We're building the country's first investment super app — think Robinhood, tailored for the Saudi market. After a 10x growth in 2024, we've captured a significant share of the market and are preparing for our next phase: scaling performance and preparing for IPO.
Job Overview
We’re building an excellence center to deliver a new high-performance, modular, and scalable trading infrastructure. As a Tech Lead or Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be core to this transformation — architecting systems capable of handling hundreds of concurrent transactions and helping us scale into 2025 and beyond.
Company Introduction
Awaed is Saudi Arabia’s leading retail investment platform fintech. We're building the country's first investment super app — think Robinhood, tailored for the Saudi market. After a 10x growth in 2024, we've captured a significant share of the market and are preparing for our next phase: scaling performance and preparing for IPO.
Job Overview
We’re building an excellence center to deliver a new high-performance, modular, and scalable trading infrastructure. As a Tech Lead or Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be core to this transformation — architecting systems capable of handling hundreds of concurrent transactions and helping us scale into 2025 and beyond.
Tasks
- Lead the design and development of high performance trading systems, ensuring robust architecture and scalability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new features and enhance existing functionalities in trading platforms.
- Mentor and guide a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
- Conduct performance analysis and optimization to ensure low-latency and high-throughput trading operations.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement in trading system capabilities.
Requirements
Must have:
- 5+ years (Tech Lead) or 3+ years (Senior Developer) of backend system development.
- Proven experience in high-performance trading systems or real-time financial applications.
- Strong command of system architecture, API design, and data handling under load.
- Passion for clean code — ideally with personal GitHub projects or side work to show.
- Comfortable working independently and in startup environments.
Nice to have:
- Experience with OMS (Order Management Systems) and EOD (End-of-Day) settlement systems.
- Background in fintech, brokerages, or building mobile trading platforms.
- Familiarity with microservices, distributed systems, or event-driven architecture.
- Experience mentoring or managing small engineering teams (for Tech Lead).
Benefits
- Competitive salary with equity (for Tech Lead role).
- Remote-friendly team culture with Cairo-based core team.
- Opportunity to shape architecture and engineering culture from the ground up.
- Pre-IPO equity upside — we’re preparing to go public in 2026.
Join Awaed as a Tech Lead – High Performance Trading Systems and drive innovation in cutting-edge technology. Elevate your career in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment. Apply today!
- Seniority levelNot Applicable
- Employment typeFull-time
- Job functionOther
- IndustriesSoftware Development
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