Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Longbridge is a next-generation social brokerage service provider building technology for global financial markets. The Senior Backend Engineer will architect and maintain high-performance infrastructure for real-time US securities trading, focusing on concurrency, ultra-low latency, distributed systems reliability, scalability, and resilience.
Responsibilities
- Architect & Build: Design, implement and maintain the core infrastructure platform that supports our US securities trading system
- Collaborate: Partner with cross-functional business and product teams to translate complex trading functionalities and business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Optimize for Performance: Continuously refine code and system architecture to achieve micro-millisecond latency and high throughput, ensuring our traders have a competitive edge
- Ensure Resilience: Maintain and improve system stability and high availability, implementing robust monitoring and failover strategies
- Modernize: Contribute to the evolution of our tech stack, advocating for best practices in systems programming and infrastructure-as-code
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- At least 5 years experience in backend development
- CS Mastery: A rock-solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including complex data structures, algorithms, operating systems and networking
- Systems Expertise: Proven professional experience with Rust
- Operational Mindset: Experience with Linux internals, performance profiling, and debugging complex distributed systems
- We are also open to experts in Go or C++ who are eager to master Rust in a production environment
- Deep experience with Functional Programming (e.g., OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, or Haskell)
- Prior experience in trading platform (FinTech or Financial Services)
- The preferred job location is Dallas or New York on hybrid working mode. But we are open to candidates from other locations (remote)
Benefits
- Hybrid working mode in Dallas or New York
- Remote work for candidates from other locations
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