Staff Backend Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer: High-Frequency Trading Systems

Location: Remote - Fully remote in Asia

Compensation: $80K - $100K

Join a hyper-growth technology firm defining the future at the intersection of Prediction Markets, AI, and Blockchains. We are experiencing a rapid scale-up, currently managing $200 million in annualized volume with weekly growth rates exceeding 100%. Our platform is backed by leading institutional capital, including a major $500 million AUM digital asset fund and an elite AI/crypto accelerator known for its sub-1% acceptance rate.

This is a critical, high-leverage role to own and scale mission-critical trading systems. You will work on performance-critical infrastructure where correctness, ultra-low latency, and reliability are non-negotiable.

The Staff Backend Engineer will be responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining the core trading infrastructure. This role focuses on low-latency, high-throughput systems that sit directly in the execution path, operating close to real money and high market risk.

What You'll Do:

• Work directly alongside the CEO, COO, and founding engineers, driving core engineering strategy.
• Design and build robust backend systems for:
• Order Routing
• Execution
• Pricing Engines
• Reconciliation and Settlement
• Optimize services for maximum performance, ensuring extreme latency targets, high throughput, and fault tolerance are met.
• Make critical architectural decisions that have immediate and direct production impact on a global-scale platform.
• Work with a modern and scalable tech stack including Node.js, Python, MongoDB, and AWS Serverless.

Requirements

We are seeking a deeply technical, highly driven engineer with a track record of success in demanding environments.

• Essential Experience: Proven experience building high-stakes infrastructure for trading, exchange, or financial systems.
• Technical Acumen: Strong intuition and expertise in systems design, distributed computing, and performance optimization.
• Ownership and Drive: Demonstrable high ownership, self-starter mentality, and comfort working long hours on complex, time-sensitive problems.
• Location: Must be based in Asia to align with the team's operational base and key market hours.

Benefits

We offer a compensation and growth package designed to attract and retain world-class engineering talent.

• High-Impact Ownership: Full autonomy and ownership over core business logic and trading systems.
• Executive Collaboration: Direct, hands-on collaboration with the CEO, COO, and founding team.
• Exponential Growth: Opportunity to scale your career and the platform at a company experiencing triple-digit percentage weekly volume growth.
• Competitive Package: Highly competitive salary and a significant equity component reflective of the company's hyper-growth trajectory.

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.

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