Staff Backend Engineer - India
Job Description:
Please Read Before Applying
This is not a Web3 experiment.
This is not a feature-factory backend role.
This is not a 9–5 maintenance job.
We are looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer( 8+ years) with real experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or financial systems.
If youve worked close to execution engines, exchanges, pricing systems, or financial infrastructure — we want to talk.
Candidates must be based in India- fully remote.
The Role
Were hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to own and scale performance-critical trading systems that sit directly in the execution path.
Youll be working where:
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Latency matters
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Correctness matters
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Reliability matters
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And mistakes cost real money
This is production-grade infrastructure with real volume and real risk.
Youll work directly with the CEO, COO, and founding engineers, making architectural decisions that immediately impact live systems.
What Youll Do
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Design and build backend systems for:
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Order routing
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Execution engines
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Pricing services
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Trade reconciliation
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Optimize services for:
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Low latency
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High throughput
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Fault tolerance
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Deterministic correctness
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Make architectural decisions affecting production trading flows
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Build and maintain systems operating under real capital exposure
Tech Stack
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Node.js
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Python
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MongoDB
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AWS (Serverless Infrastructure)
What Were Looking For
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Proven experience building:
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Trading systems
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Exchange infrastructure
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Order matching engines
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Financial execution systems
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Strong systems-thinking and performance intuition
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Deep understanding of:
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Concurrency
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Throughput bottlenecks
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Latency profiling
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Production observability
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Comfortable operating in a high-ownership, high-accountability environment
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Willing to work hard on complex, high-impact problems
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Preferred (Not Required)
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Web3 / crypto trading exposure
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Experience operating at meaningful trading volumes
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Experience scaling infrastructure under volatility spikes
Why This Role Is Different
This is not just backend engineering.
Youll be:
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Building systems that sit directly in trade execution paths
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Working alongside leadership
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Owning real infrastructure
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Influencing architecture at the highest level
If you want comfort, this isnt it.
If you want ownership and impact, this is the seat.