Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Devexperts works with respected financial institutions, delivering products and tailor-made solutions for retail and brokerage houses, exchanges, and buy-side firms. The company focuses on trading platforms and brokerage automation, complex software development projects, market data products, and IT consulting services. 

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join the team.    

Our current project involves developing one of the leading trading platforms in the USA, serving a user base of over 200,000 online users daily across desktops, mobile devices, and the web. The system is capable of processing over 1 million requests per second across its distributed infrastructure. 

The responsibilities of the platform's backend services include handling all business processes related to trading, such as order issuance, validation, routing, execution, option price calculation, and reconciliation. We prioritize high performance, low latency, and fault tolerance in our day-to-day tasks. We ensure code quality by performing careful code reviews and various types of testing.  

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll build and own backend services, infrastructure, and data systems. You’ll solve complex scalability challenges while gaining deep expertise in U.S. financial systems and making a direct impact on the products used by millions. 

Qualifications

What we expect from candidates:  

• 3+ years of backend development experience,  
• Strong proficiency in Go or Python, 
• Solid understanding of system design principles, 
• Experience with Kafka (or similar streaming platforms), 
• Proven experience delivering large technical projects while collaborating with cross-functional teams, 
• Strong focus on maintaining high code quality and participating in thorough code review processes, 
• Experience working in the capital/trading market,
• B2+ English to be able to communicate with multicultural teams and a US customer.

Considered a plus:  

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, AWS (or similar cloud platforms), 
• Experience working in high-load systems, 
• Hands-on experience in concurrent programming and understanding of thread synchronization approaches. 

Our interview process typically includes: 

• Recruiter screening 
• CoderPad assessment
• System design interview 
• Final call 
• Offer 
• Background check 

Additional Information

Work Regime Flexibility benefits: 

• Possibility of hybrid/remote work mode,
• Flexible working hours.

Health and recreation benefits: 

• Fully paid additional wellness days (3 unwell days per year),
• Medical insurance for the employees and children,
• Reimbursement of fitness / Urban Sports Club Membership,
• Meal allowance & Flexpay System (Coverflex Card),

Facility benefits: 

• Parking spaces,
• Free drinks and snacks.

Community benefits: 

• Free admission to corporate external events,
• Possibility of joining conferences and professional fairs,
• Personal branding development support.

Professional training benefits: 

• Local language courses for foreign employees,
• Unlimited access to self-learning platforms,

Social benefits: 

• Parental bonus,
• Pension plan (Coverflex),
• Referral bonus,
• Blood donation paid leave.