Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Asian Timezones
hermeneutic Investments · Singapore · Not Specified
Quick Summary
- Lead the design and development of cloud-native backend systems using Go.
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality and mentorship.
- Take ownership of production services, ensuring reliability and performance.
Full Description
We are seeking a seasoned Backend Engineer to help build high-performance, cloud-native infrastructure to support our research, trading, and data pipelines. This role is crucial to enabling real-time data ingestion and processing workflows, and ensuring our systems can meet the demands of a high-uptime, low-latency trading environment.
The ideal candidate is deeply familiar with Go and modern distributed systems, has extensive experience in production-grade system design, and brings a strong operational mindset to development. You will work closely with trading, infrastructure, and data teams to design and maintain systems that are fast, reliable, and observable.
This is a critical position at the technical core of the firm, ideal for individuals who thrive in fast-moving environments and care deeply about performance, robustness, and continuous improvement
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of robust high-performance, cloud-native backend systems using Go that support real-time data processing and low-latency workflows.
- Drive engineering excellence through code quality, best practices, and mentorship of other team members.
- Work closely with trading, product, and infrastructure teams to understand system requirements and deliver performant solutions.
- Take ownership of production services, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance tuning. Optimize systems performance and ensure system stability, reliability, and security.
- Contribute to infrastructure automation and CI/CD improvements to support rapid deployment and operational agility.
- Conduct in-depth code reviews, lead technical discussions, and influence engineering culture and standards.
- Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and participate in code reviews and design discussions.
- Deploy and manage services leveraging cloud-native tools and best practices
- Monitor, debug, and troubleshoot production systems and be a part of the on-call incident response team in a high-uptime environment.