Senior Software Developer

We are hiring a Senior Software Developer for our AI-based oil & gas trading and hedging startup.

Location: İstanbul

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer for our team to mentor, design and develop highly scalable, real-time systems/frameworks with good code quality, re-usability and reliability in mind.

The Software Developer will play a key role in building and optimizing scalable applications, APIs, and backend systems that power AI-driven trading and analytics within the organization. As a key member of the company’s software development team, the Software Developer will be responsible for designing and implementing high-performance software solutions.

This role requires expertise in backend development, cloud computing, and distributed systems. It presents a significant opportunity to contribute to AI-driven innovation by developing robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions to enhance trading strategies and system performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and monitor technology trend, new technologies, and new software tools.
• Write core modules and components, resolve coding issues
• Ensuring code standards over projects, and perform peer design and code reviews.
• Define and implement Proof-Of-Concept prototypes for new features and proposals.
• Involve in design and implementation of new features and refactoring of existing features according to software design specification and code standards of the project
• Work independently while developing effective, maintainable code
• Research and monitor technology trend, new technologies, and new software tools.
• Create technical documents including software design specification (SDS) and release notes (formal software development life-cycle exposure)
• Work together with other developers to solve code issues and bugs.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with different team members
• Promote knowledge sharing, positivity and creativity
• Contribute feedback to functional and technical specifications

Qualifications

• Proficiency in programming languages such as , C++, Go or Python
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.
• Experience with multithreading programming.
• Experience writing unit tests.
• Understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.

Preferred

• Great curiosity and willingness to question
• Familiarity in at least one scripting language such as Python
• Knowledge of relational and in-memory database systems – key value stores (eg. PostgreSQL, Apache Ignite, Redis)
• Working knowledge of tools used in the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. JIRA, Git, Redmine)
• The Software Developer will play a key role in building and optimizing scalable applications, APIs, and backend systems that power AI-driven trading and analytics within the organization. As a key member of the company’s software development team, the Software Developer will be responsible for designing and implementing high-performance software solutions.
• This role requires expertise in backend development, cloud computing, and distributed systems. It presents a significant opportunity to contribute to AI-driven innovation by developing robust, scalable, and highperformance software solutions to enhance trading strategies and system performance.